O adeus às veredas? : ressignificação da relação humano-natureza a partir de cartografias em Vila Bela–Mato Grosso

Abstract

Vereda is a place where ecologies socialize, meet, to celebrate water, beauty, freshness, and resist the adversity of the world. Well, developing methodologies that identify processes of meaning and transformations in the Human-Nature relationship is a way to avoid saying goodbye to transspecies encounters. In this perspective, the research aimed to produce Sociocultural Cartography with the Quilombola Communities of Vila Bela da Santissima Trindade - MT, of the Pioneers who came with the emblematic "March to the West" and by the prosperity speeches of the National Integration Plan (PIN) of 1970, of the Civil-Military Dictatorship, in order to qualify the contemporary relationship in the region with what is understood by “Nature”. In order to assess the concreteness of cosmopolitics in the landscape, Socioecological Cartography was also elaborated, through the production of maps on the anthropization of forests in the territory, based on the PIN, relating them to other inevitable insurgent data, such as mobilizations on the part of agribusiness to exclude Mato Grosso from the Legal Amazon and extinguish Conservation Units in the state, debates on the destination of the Park in Vila Bela and the evolution of impacts on the waters in the region, connecting, in some way, these sets of facts with a relational vanguard in formation in the Midwest. To this end, interactive cartographic methods were adopted, permeating Geography, Anthropology, Law, History, Politics and Traditional Knowledge, with the purpose of mapping, representing and translating biomes, times, people and their interactions, using transversalities between Human studies -Social and Non-Human-Nature. In this process, the researcher decided to establish residence in the territory, constituting affection-actions and prolonged contact with local cultures. As for the results, an attempt was made to “restore” part of the Human-Nature relationship from the period of predominant occupation of traditional communities in the municipality; describe the current relationships with nature; examine the representation and translation of cosmopolitical tensions imprinted on the subjectivities and on the rare landscape, which has Amazon, Cerrado, Pantanais and Veredas biomes, symbolized by the Buritizais, coexisting with processes of demarcation of indigenous and quilombola territories, extensive livestock, attempts to extinction of protected areas and desires for soy production on a scale.