Banca de DEFESA: MAIARA BRENDA RODRIGUES DE BRITO

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MAIARA BRENDA RODRIGUES DE BRITO
DATE: 19/09/2022
TIME: 16:00
LOCAL: Canal do MHIST no Youtube
TITLE:

BAIXO-AÇU PROJECT: AN ANALYSIS ABOUT THE DISCOURSE OF MODERNITY IN THE SERTÃO POTIGUAR (1975-1985)

KEY WORDS:

Baixo-Açu Project; modernity, modernization of agriculture; discourse; Sertão.

PAGES: 125
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUBÁREA: História do Brasil
SUMMARY:

The present work focuses on the Baixo-Açu Project, a water project directed to the Açu Valley (RN) during the 1970s. The purpose of the intervention was to increase the productivity of the land, insert it in the industrial market, face the problems related to floods and droughts that attacked the region. To face adversities, the State implemented a set of actions considered modern and that were supported by the discourse of engineers and technicians, which can be characterized as an authoritarian modernization.  This work is about the analysis of the political, technical and journalistic discourses between 1975 and 1985 that defended modernity for the Valley through the Baixo-Açu Project. The study allowed us to understand how the agents of power acted in defense of the project and how the idea of modernity was used to strengthen the concept of progress and salvation. The displacement of the city of São Rafael, as well as its new urban structure was also analyzed based on the discourses that praised the idea of modernizing the sertão. The research also recovered the considerations about the social manifestations during the implementation of the construction and verified political persecution to union, ecclesiastic and teaching leaders. This study makes use of the periodical O Diário de Natal (1975 - 1979); materials issued by the Federal Police Department - Regional Superintendence of Rio Grande do Norte; the Ministry of Aeronautics; the National Information Service; the DNOCS report and advertising pamphlet, as well as correspondence to Bishop Dom Heitor and speeches by the politician Moacyr Duarte. The narrative is based on the concepts: sertão, modernity, modernization and discourse.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2371256 - AIRAN DOS SANTOS BORGES DE OLIVEIRA
Externo à Instituição - JOVELINA SILVA SANTOS - UERN
Interna - 2914858 - JUCIENE BATISTA FELIX ANDRADE