Species and Forest: The Aracucaria in environmental discussions and in the production of significant meanings towards the Paraná forests

Abstract

This article looks to analyzes how certain symbolic, discursive and imagery constructions that engender effects and production processes relating to Araucaria and, in its wake, to the Araucaria forest were designed and disseminated throughout the twentieth century in Paraná. The main argument is on the deforestation occurred in the state, of which was obscured by discourses centered on the species and its importance to the economic development of Paraná, in parallel to a certain "obliviousness" to the forest in which it belonged. Therefore, we aim our attention in a manner where both, species and forest, were versed by the Paraná Movement (Movimento paranista), by the researchers Romário Martins and Francisco Carlos Hoehne and four papers presented at the 1st Brazilian Forestry Congress (1º. Congresso Florestal Brasileiro), which was held in Curitiba in 1953. Keywords: Alphabetic Writing; Literacy; The Portuguese Colonization; Atlantic Forest; Colonial Period