“Caminhos que formam”: redes e produção do território no Cariri cearense oitocentista

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Anderson Felipe Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/12601
• topic: Cariri cearense; Redes; Território; Século XIX; Networks; Territory; 19th century; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIA

The economic arrangements constituted by cattle raising in the colonial framework promoted great changes in the territory of the entire captaincy. The appearance of the villages, in the first half of the 19th century, is linked to a series of transformations in the Ceará territory since its independence from Pernambuco. In this process, the established networks synthesize the relations that have repercussions in Cariri in the constitution of its economy facing the paradigms of production, circulation, and consumption. Such questions led us to problematize: what functions did the networks play in the territorial transformations of Cariri Ceará in the 19th century? For this, we seek to understand its genesis, its role in the production process of the territory in Cariri in the early nineteenth century, and the influence of the modernization plans of the networks in the constitution of a connection from the south of the province to Fortaleza. The methodological procedures are based on a bibliographical survey of themes such as networks and production of territory, the formation of Cariri Cearense, railroad implementation projects, and the territory modernization process. In addition, based on the collections of platforms such as the Biblioteca Nacional Digital, the Instituto Histórico do Ceará, and the Center for Research Libraries - Global Resources Network, we researched documents, reports, maps, and texts about the networks and the territory of Ceará. In concluding our analysis, we understand that the networks made possible, in the first half of the 1800s, the attempt to constitute a territorial unit not only economically, but also politically and administratively, articulating the south of Ceará with the neighboring hinterlands. However, from the 1860s on, Cariri became a central element in the organization of the modernization projects of the Ceará networks and territory as a control point in the south of the state decreasing the influence of the neighboring provinces and increasing the centrality of Fortaleza. As elements of integration and control, the networks allow us to understand how, in the 19th century Cariri, different subjects used them to act territorially in the realm of circulation, limits, and power.