Depuis l’invasion européenne débutée en 1500, le large territoire appelé Brésil est associé à l’image d’une nature tropicale exubérante, qui suscite fascination et convoitise. Pourtant, si ce pays accueille la biodiversité la plus riche du monde, il pâtit d’une réputation de destructeur de l’environnement, en raison notamment des taux de déforestation importants qui attirent l’attention médiatique depuis les années 1970. Le workshop vise à la fois à réaliser un état des lieux de l'histoire environnementale brésilienne et à discuter des nouvelles perspectives qui se présentent à ce champ d’étude.

Programme

Jeudi 13 octobre

 13h-13h30: Greetings and introduction

 13h30-15h30: The shaping of environmental relations in the colonial period

Chair: Claudia Damasceno Fonseca, CRBC/ EHESS

• Inês Amorim, Universidade do Porto: “From sea to land - beyond a nationalist and colonial history”
• Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística: “Overwriting the land: literacy, colonialism and socio- environmental change in early Brazil”
• Gustavo S. Azenha, Columbia University: “Trees and indians in in the making of Brazil’s discovery coast: Global markets, forest conservation, and indigenous agency in Southern Bahia”

 15h45-17h45: The Nature(s) of nation building

Chair: Antoine Acker, Università degli Studi di Torino

• Teresa Cribeli, University of Alabama: “National natures: landscape, natural resources, and narratives of progress in Brazil and the United States”
• Etienne Sauthier, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III (Institut des Hautes Études de l’Amérique Latine): “From assimilation to identity: connections to nature in Brazilian literature (1830-1956)”
• Ely Bergo de Carvalho, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais: “Environment in textbooks on Brazilian history, 1972-2012 “

 18h-20h: Debate - After the impeachment : What about the environnement?

Chair: Juliette Dumont (IHEAL/ Association pour la Recherche sur le Brésil en Europe)

• André Abreu de Almeida (environnementaliste et directeur des politiques à Tara Expeditions) and Frédéric Pagès (Chanteur-voyageur et journaliste indépendant)

Round table in French

Vendredi 14 octobre

 9h20-12h: Environmental Histories of the South between Local and Global Narratives

Chair: Isabelle Rispler, University of Texas Arlington

• Jorge Quetzal Argueta, EHESS (Centre Alexandre-Koyré): “The pathways of environmental history in Mexico and its emergent agendas“
• Matthieu Guerin, INALCO: “Colonization and wild life conservation in Cambodia and Malaysia“
• Thomas Mougey, Maastricht University: “Imagining new worlds: international science, politics and nature in postwar Amazonia”
• Kevin Niebauer, Freie Universität Berlin: “Globalizing the endangered rainforest: The Brazilian Amazon as an entangled trope of ecological crisis in the late 20th century”

 13h-14h20: Land and agriculture in dispute

Chair: Bastien Beaufort, IHEAL/ Paris III

• Jennifer Eaglin, Ohio State University: “Changing the tide: Ethanol, caneworkers, and the Guariba Strikes of 1984”
• Claire Lagier, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität de Munich (Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society): “MST’s agroecology: rethinking conservation in a perspective of solidarity”

 14h30-16h30: From “nature” to “resources”: the political implications of scientific knowledge

Chair: Nathalia Capellini, CHCSH/ UVSQ

• Mariana Sales, Université Paris III: “The Brazilian flora in the manuscripts of Ferdinand Denis”
• Georg Fischer, Aarhus University: “Geology, globalization, and expert culture. The production of knowledge on iron ore in Brazil, 1876-1914”
• André Felipe Cândido da Silva and Dominichi Miranda de Sá, Fiocruz: “Water, health and environment in development projects during the Brazilian history of the twentieth century”

 17h-19h: Closing lecture: “Brazil and the Anthropocene” by José Augusto Pádua, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Joint event with the “Siglo XX” course (IHEAL - Paris III)