A agroindustrialização e a construção de narrativas em Guarapuava-PR (1950-presente)

Abstract

The present work consists of analyzing agricultural modernization projects undertaken in the city of Guarapuava, in the southern center of the State of Paraná, starting from the 1950s. The objective of this analysis was to understand how these projects, aimed at high technology in the context of agrarian development, affected the lives of that society and what the repercussions of these movements have been in political, cultural, social, and environmental spaces from their implementation to the current situation. In our analysis, we rely on the theoretical framework of Environmental History, focusing on authors such as Warren Dean (1932-), Donald Worster (1941-), and José Augusto Pádua (1959-). Together with these authors, we comprehend that the environment is highly participatory in human history, not merely a secondary agent or a backdrop where history unfolds, but a being with numerous characteristics and specificities open to analysis, in which individuals integrate and transform it according to their pleasures, desires, and dominion. The methodology employed in this study centers on documentary analysis, as proposed by Carlos de Almeida Prado Bacellar (1959-), and on discussions about narrative formulation, as indicated in studies on temporality and its uses by Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006). In conclusion, we can observe that the agricultural modernization undertaken in the hinterlands of Paraná was not carried out independently of historical context; rather, it was dependent on it. Thus, there exists an entire historical context where the new alternates with the old, creating a dichotomy that feeds back between tradition, labor, modernity, and technology.