As estações ferroviárias na região contestada: um estudo acerca da resistência sertaneja a partir da estação de São João (1906-1916)

Abstract

With the object of analysis, the attack on São João station, current city of Matos Costa / SC, location inserted in the "disputed area", located in the middle west of the current state of Santa Catarina, the general objective of this research seeks to understand that, relations of power and resistance movements are constituted and manifested in the social, political and economic, during deployment and attack the São João station – 1914. The research focuses, as the theoretical, conceptual elements introduced in by author Michel Foucault.The exercise that we propose in this research is to produce a historical knowledge able to contemplate Foucault's theory, that is, it seeks to enable and understand the many relationships of forces that establish the social, economic and present political relations during the attack station of São João. When it comes to results, it was found that the station is not merely a "reflection" of government actions in support of economic development, which is associated with the discourse of modernity and present progress in its process construction, but rather, a constituent part of this strategy by acquiring an active and ideological dimension within this historical context.