Name: TATIANA CANIÇALI CASADO
Type: PhD thesis
Publication date: 03/11/2022
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ENEIDA MARIA SOUZA MENDONÇA | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| CLÁUDIO LUIZ ZANOTELLI | Internal Examiner * |
| ENEIDA MARIA SOUZA MENDONÇA | Advisor * |
Summary: This thesis is part of the reflection on the problem arising from the binomial
society-nature and tradition-new. The complex and tangled web of biases that
unfolds from these binomials and triggers questions common to the `separate`
fields of the human sciences does not correspond to the apparent simplicity
suggested by the four words that name the symmetrical dualities of modernity.
From this plot, we are particularly interested in grasping the modus operandi of
social action in the space-time of modernization processes with a view to
understanding the symmetrical oppositions presupposed by the civilizational
mode that is self-identified by differentiation from predecessor modes. The
premise is the socio-spatial practices in the waters in Vitória (ES) between the
mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth century, from which dissonances with the
`modern myth` are revealed, based on the character of rupture, on the imposition
of the new and in the claim to totality. The `modern myth` is taken as the narrative
shaped by opposing symmetries tradition and the new; society and nature -
which is anchored in the need to delegitimize the traditionality of `knowing about
men` as `knowing about things`. In the present discussion, it is pointed out that
the Greek mythical structure as an allegory to the understanding of the `modern
myth` is less a problem of the epistemological metanarrative character than a
question of legitimizing the production of knowledge with current praxis. If, on the
one hand, confronting the socio-spatial practices in the waters in Vitória (ES) with
the problem of the society-nature and tradition-new binomials, allowed us to point
out gaps in the structure of the `modern myth`, on the other hand, it also reinforced
us the need for reflexivity in the production of knowledge in human becoming.
Thus, it is possible to identify the construction of a structure of the imaginary of
the waters from the imagery recurrence of the spaces of the waters and the
symbolic values present in the socio-spatial practices that took place.
Keywords: social-spatial practices, waters, Vitória (ES).
