Ambiência e mitos nos discursos e práticas acadêmicas: uma análise das monografias e dissertações do PPGGeo/UFSM

Abstract

This study consists of documental research on samples of monographs and dissertations, which are part of the Post-Graduate in Geography and Geosciences, Federal University of Santa Maria (PPGGeo / UFSM), and they have in their thematic study of environment. It was observed from these samples, the environmental discourse defended by its authors and the underlying myths that lead the work, because it is considered that the myths are the ideals of the community and people of archetypal form and uniform concepts and beliefs. For that took into account the development of environmentalism in the brazilian society, contemporary theories about the environment, the conceptual theoretical framework adopted by the Geography and bequeathed (and myth) to their successors, the way the myths and archetypes permeate and influence the development of science, and how myths affect the relationship between society and nature. Thus, this research emerged in which ideas that are dominant in the construction of a placement pattern of the scientific community. The results were divided into two categories, one representing the contradictory discourse of practice and the other, the absence of conflict between discourses and practices, both founded by the influence of myths. The mythology of Paradise Lost was dominant in the work and it unfolds in separating man and nature, the main dichotomy in Geography. In turn, it was found that this same myth is the main source of contradictions between the discourses and practices in academic monographs and dissertations from PPGGeo.