Pantanal: a construção de uma paisagem a partir das categorias de estética e natureza

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of deepening the topics studied by Geographic Languages Research Group. It is a world reading from a case study, the Pantanal, which is addressed by the benchmarks of aesthetics and nature are central to better understand how this is predominantly perceived and reported in the context of teaching geography. The rescue of the categories of aesthetics and nature, in science and philosophy, demonstrates many aspects of the historical construction of the prevailing understanding of the Pantanal that echo the discourse of teachers and textbooks and geography, as well as in media statements, especially in electronic media, which is one analyzed in this study. The structure of the work consists of the characterization of language in the humanities, the concept of nature in modern geography and the understanding of modern aesthetics in the ideas of Kant and Hegel. We find from this theoretical framework and methodology of content analysis, which, based on questionnaires with some Geography teachers from public and private state of Mato Grosso do Sul, the Pantanal is considered as a natural landscape, a region closed and completed in its aesthetic sense of richness and natural beauty, with nature, therefore, a category that represents the individuality of this place. Moreover, issues related to aspects of preservation and environmental degradation are also widely disseminated by these vehicles and permeate the imaginary wetland. Thus, we build a Pantanal marked by duality, because on one hand we have the perfection of beauty of flora and fauna and on the other hand, the imperfection represented by such irresponsible actions and compromising the natural environment for future generations. This set of ideas about the Pantanal is present in the official discourse of geography, both teachers and textbooks, and represents an understanding of the same design that guided a seemingly contradicts himself, but who end up coming together to cover up the profound diversity of this place . Taking as a fact, according with Deleuzian ideas, only differences reputable representative models for the identification of similarity, which aim to transform the differences in concepts that seek IDs similarities, thus denies them everything that jars, or may contradict disharmonize standardizing the thought characteristic of modern classical reason. Having the theoretical thinking of Gilles Deleuze, more specifically the present in his work Difference and Repetition, seek, from their concepts of multiplicity.