MANDATORY DISCIPLINES:
THE CERRADO IN HISTORIOGRAPHICAL PRODUCTION
Syllabus: The historiography on the implantation of colonization in the Cerrado in the 18th century. The historiography on the economic activities of the Cerrado. The historiography on material culture in the Cerrado. The new contemporary historiographical trends and the approach to the Cerrado.
TERRITORIAL POLICIES IN AREAS OF THE CERRADOSyllabus: Relations between State and territory. The Brazilian State and its policies with repercussions on the territory: agrarian question; directed migrations; large investment projects; historical experiences of territorial planning. Intervention practices in Cerrado areas. Spatial configurations and reconfigurations of contemporary capitalism. Recent changes in the Brazilian territorial dynamics. Productive insertion of the Cerrado and its role in the territorial and productive organization of Brazil.
RESEARCH SEMINAR
Syllabus: Study of research methodology issues linked to dissertation projects. Interdisciplinarity in social science research. Elaboration of the problem and the construction of the research object. Preparation of the Research Plan. Discussion of research techniques, data collection and formulation of analysis instruments. General guidelines for making a research project. Ethics in scientific research. Scientific writing. Discussion of the partial results of dissertations through thematic seminars.
ELECTIVE DISCIPLINES:
THE URBAN DIMENSION IN THE CERRADO
Syllabus: The urbanization process and its implications in Cerrado areas. Contemporary urban society. Typologies and origin of cities. Intra-urban scale elements. Analysis of new urban phenomena/refunctionalization/restructuring. The consumption of the city.
CARTOGRAPHIC LANGUAGE IN THE SPATIAL REPRESENTATION OF THE CERRADO
Syllabus: Basic principles of cartographic language. Reading of cartographic products. Descriptive statistics. Data collection, production of tables and graphs. Databases and programs available. The map as a research product. Preparation and interpretation of thematic cartographic products.
BRAZILIAN CAPITALISM AND MODERNIZATION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Syllabus: The formation of original capitalism (the English model). The latecomer economies and the overtaking in the last quarter of the 19th century. The debate via classical X via Prussian in the formation of capitalism. Brazilian late capitalism. The transition from the oligarchic State to the bourgeois State in Brazil. The incorporation of the Cerrado in the capital accumulation process.
CERRADO, ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE
Syllabus: Origin, evolution and phytophysiognomies of the Cerrado biome; Settlement - the first inhabitants and the environmental balance; Physical and historical characteristics of land use and occupation; Anthropic expansion, developmental projects and ethnodevelopment in the Cerrado; Causes and consequences of socioeconomic, environmental and cultural impacts.
CITIES, LANDSCAPES AND PATRIMONY
Syllabus: Cultural dimension of the concepts of city, landscape and patrimony. The relations between cities and nature. The composition of an Environmental and Urban Cultural Patrimony. Representation, imaginary and perception of cities and landscapes.
PLANNED CITIES IN THE CERRADO
Syllabus: The city and the urban in the establishment of a new spatial discipline in the context of bourgeois revolutions. The urban thinking and the urban reforms in the 20th century. The cities in the process of formation of the Brazilian territory. Planned cities, improvement and beautification plans, circulation plans. Planned capital cities in the Cerrado: Goiânia, Brasília and Palmas. New small and medium-sized cities in the Cerrado. The relations between production, form, uses and transformations of planned cities.
COUNTRYSIDE CULTURE AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE CERRADO
Syllabus: The representation of culture in the daily practices of the country man: traditional planting; medicinal plants; food; rituals; festivals; worldview. The contemporary sertanejo and media representations. Reinvention of identities in the Cerrado.
ETHICS IN RESEARCH
Syllabus: Ethical principles involving research with human beings in the Human and Social Sciences and contained in current legislation. Documentary preparation required for the insertion of projects in Plataforma Brasil and CEP. Methodological domain of insertion of the research project in Plataforma Brasil.
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, LOGISTICS AND AGRIBUSINESS IN THE CERRADO
Syllabus: Technological innovation and the main economic approaches of its impact on the production space and territory in Cerrado areas. The dynamics of technological innovation in peripheral regions, in areas of agricultural expansion. Agribusiness in the Cerrado, the context of technological advancement and value creation. The generation and incorporation of different technological discourses in the Cerrado in agribusiness chains. The importance of transport and logistics in the production circulation.
LITERATURE, HISTORY AND CINEMA IN THE CERRADO
Syllabus: Introduction to the History of Literature and Cinema in Goiás and Cerrado. Relations between Literature and History. Literature and Cinema as historical documents. Literary and audiovisual aesthetics as a producer of representations of historical processes and diffuser of ideological discourses. Cinematographic transpositions of literary works from Cerrado. Documentary and fiction. Development of ethnic-environmental cinema based on new filmic-photographic recording technologies. The role of the filmmaker-historian as collector, editor and first analyst of captured images.
TERRITORIALIZED SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE CERRADO
Syllabus: Relations between society, technique and territory. Power and resistance relations that materialize in space and delimit territories. Strategies for appropriating and using space and their impact on the affirmation of communities. Territorialized social movements in the countryside and cities. Spatial dimension of popular mobilization strategies.
NATURE AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE DOMAINS OF THE CERRADO
Syllabus: Visions of Nature. The domains of the Cerrado in the narratives of travelers. Border, Culture and Nature. The Cerrado and the symbolic space. Conservation and Protection of nature in the domains of the Cerrado. Devastation and Confrontation of Nature in the Cerrado. Natural and Environmental History of the Cerrado. Plants and Knowledge of the Cerrado. Biodiversity and conservation biology in the domains of the Cerrado.
BRAZILIAN SOCIAL THOUGHT: TERRITORY, SOCIETY AND ECONOMY
Syllabus: Brazilian social thought in the 19th century: Joaquim Nabuco and Oliveira Vianna. Brazilian social thought in the 20th century: Aspects of the cultural formation of the Brazilian people (Gilberto Freyre; Darcy Ribeiro; Sérgio Buarque de Holanda); The formation of Brazilian capitalism and the debate on the bourgeois revolution in Brazil (Caio Prado Jr; Celso Furtado; Florestan Fernandes); The formation of national elites (José Murilo de Carvalho, Raymundo Faoro and Victor Nunes Leal). The debate on Brazilian peripheral capitalism (TMD - Ruy Mauro Marini; TWE - Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto; EC - Celso Furtado); Contemporary debates about Brazil (Francisco de Oliveira; José de Souza Martins; Roberto Schwarz).
RELIGIOSITIES IN THE CERRADO
Syllabus: Religiosity and environment. The historiography of religiosities in the Cerrado. Contemporary religiosities in the Cerrado: tradition and Catholic resignification; Neopentecostal advance; Afro-Brazilian religions and their expressions; postmodern religious practices and beliefs.
AUDIOVISUAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE CERRADO
Syllabus: Introduction to the History of Cinema. Ethnic-environmental cinematography. Documentary and fiction. Films produced in and about the Brazilian Cerrado, analyzing them in the context of contemporary historical research. Use of audiovisual records as an illustration of ideological discourses. Diffusion of regional cultures. Development of ethnic-environmental cinema based on new filmic-photographic recording technologies. The role of the filmmaker-historian as collector, editor and first analyst of captured images.
INDIGENOUS AND AFRO-BRAZILIAN KNOWLEDGE OF THE CERRADO
Syllabus: Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian Knowledge of the Cerrado. Identities and ethnicities of the Cerrado. Preservation of the Cerrado, indigenous and runaway slaves to the quilombo. Cultural diversity of the Cerrado. Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian cultures in the Cerrado. Socio-cultural reproduction of indigenous and runaway slaves to the quilombo in the Cerrado in transformation.
SOCIAL THEORIES APPLIED TO RESEARCH ON THE CERRADO
Syllabus: Main paradigms of the human and social sciences. Classical social theories. The positivism and functionalism of Émile Durkheim. The sociology of Max Weber. The social theory of Karl Marx. Contemporary social theory. Neo-Marxist thought. The critical theory and the Frankfurt school. Poststructuralist thought. Cultural studies. Socio-territorial dynamics in the Cerrado: politics, power, State, territory and social classes.
TERRITORIES, CULTURE AND IDENTITIES: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES
Syllabus: The relation between multiple territories, cultures, cultural expressions and patrimonies, emphasizing issues related to identity, cultural representations, festivals, rituals and the materiality of the Cerrado peoples.
TOURISM AND TERRITORIAL STRATEGIES IN THE CERRADO
Syllabus: Theories and fundamentals of Tourism, Geography, Economics and Creative Folk Art. Spatial categories applied to tourism. Territorial strategies of tourist activities and social, economic and creative cultural contexts. Territorial strategies and tourism logics at a regional and local scale - their contradictions. Leisure and tourism in the Cerrado areas. Tourism as a producer and consumer of urban and rural spaces of the Cerrado of Goiás. Management of tourist destinations in the Cerrado of Goiás.
VALUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND PATRIMONIAL RESOURCES
Syllabus:Environmental concepts; Notions about patrimony. Valuation methods for the Demand function.
EXPERIENCES, INTERACTIONS AND METHODOLOGY OF FIELD RESEARCH ON POPULAR CULTURES
Syllabus: Between the pioneering studies of folklore and, later, those of popular culture, with the entry of anthropologists and other social scientists in this field, to the present time of issues relating to cultural patrimony, almost a century has passed. Firstly, to rescue the memory of such a journey, taking the State of Goiás and, with priority, the Municipality of Pirenópolis and its urban and rural surroundings. Ethnographic mapping of what could in principle be considered as a "happening of popular cultures", from a small and individual activity of a solitary artisan to the dimensions of a Festa do Divino Espírito Santo. In a second moment, the course proposes a "magazine" on festivals and rituals studied by the course coordinator in the 70s and 80s.