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DATA : 17/07/2026
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: Modo virtual
TÍTULO:

From the Little Princess of the Amazon to the Cattle Capital and Agribusiness Frontier: Historical-Environmental Background, Formation, and Socio-Environmental Transformations of Juara

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Keywords: Mato Grosso Amazon; Colonization; Socio-spatial dynamics; Environmental History; Oral History; Socio-environmental conflicts.

PÁGINAS: 182
GRANDE ÁREA: Outra
ÁREA: Ciências Ambientais
RESUMO:

The research entitled “Socio-Environmental Transformations Resulting from the Contemporary Occupation Process of Juara-MT: Memory Narratives of Different Social Actors,” linked to the Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences (PPGCA) at the State University of Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), aimed to analyze the socio-environmental transformations resulting from the contemporary capitalist occupation of the Mato Grosso Amazon, initiated in the Vale do Arinos region from 1955 onwards, in order to understand the territorial formation of Juara. The general objective of the research was to investigate the historical-environmental background, the formation, and the socio-environmental transformations of Juara’s territory resulting from the process of (re)occupation through colonization. This is a qualitative study grounded in the articulation between Environmental History and Oral History. Data collection was carried out through bibliographic research, documentary analysis, and oral sources obtained from interviews focusing on the memory narratives of migrants who experienced the socio-ecological dynamics of Juara since its early period. Photographic records from public and private collections were also analyzed, portraying different moments of the territorialization process. The thesis entitled “From the Little Princess of the Amazon to the Cattle Capital and Agribusiness Frontier: Historical-Environmental Background, Formation, and Socio-Environmental Transformations of Juara” is thus presented. The results highlight as central issues the processes of socio-ecological rupture driven by the expansion of the capitalist frontier, which integrated the region into the world-ecology of capital, producing an instrumental rationality marked by territorial expropriation, reconfiguration of land use, and intensification of environmental degradation. The analysis of perceptions regarding these transformations in the memory of different social actors—especially indigenous peoples who originally inhabited the region and migrants (peasants, manual laborers, and workers)—is a key element of the investigation. The research demonstrated that the capitalist occupation of the Vale do Arinos microregion began in 1955 with the establishment of the first colonial nucleus, known as Gleba Arinos, which gave rise to the municipality of Porto dos Gaúchos. This occurred within the framework of Amazon occupation policies implemented during and after the government of Getúlio Vargas, promoting structural changes in land use and triggering conflicts with indigenous communities, resulting in forced integration, depopulation, and relocation to state-defined areas, thereby freeing land for capital expansion.

The emergence of Juara decades later represented a continuation of frontier expansion, with one of its key colonization agents being a resident, entrepreneur, and politician from Porto dos Gaúchos. This expansion occurred within the context of authoritarian agricultural modernization and the integrative geopolitics of the military dictatorship, which encouraged private initiative in occupying the Legal Amazon, conceived as an empty space and a source of resources. Thus, the commodified occupation of land led to significant socio-environmental transformations, resulting in harmful effects on ecosystems, on indigenous peoples who were deterritorialized and reterritorialized, and on migrants—peasants and workers also subjected to these processes—who currently face land concentration, predatory exploitation of land and forests, and intensified environmental degradation. This is compounded by the increasing integration of the territory into the globalized economy (extensive cattle ranching and production of agricultural commodities such as soybeans, corn, and cotton), associated with the environmental crisis, particularly in the studied area due to intense deforestation, understood as a civilizational practice linked to the process of de-Amazonization. It is concluded that the occupation process analyzed consolidated a pattern of territorial development based on accumulation by dispossession and socio-ecological rupture, whose effects persist in the current regional configuration. The results are expected to contribute to fostering debate and reflection on the profound socio-environmental transformations of the Amazon and to support the formulation and implementation of public and social strategies aimed at addressing these issues, promoting an environmental rationality that includes socio-environmental territorial management, biodiversity conservation, care for human diversity, equitable land distribution, and access to and protection of natural commons.

 

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 83260001 - AUMERI CARLOS BAMPI
Interna - 500.479.220-87 - LILIANE CRISTINE SCHLEMER ALCANTARA - UFMT
Interno - 82438001 - SANDRO BENEDITO SGUAREZI
Externo ao Programa - 68840001 - MARION MACHADO CUNHA
Externo ao Programa - 247541002 - JAIRO LUIS FLECK FALCAO
Externo à Instituição - ALOIR PACINI - UFMT
Externa à Instituição - 490.492.240-91 - MARA MARIA DUTRA - IFMT