A civilização chega à selva: O domínio da natureza e o desejo do “Brasil Grande” no regime civil-militar

Abstract

In this text I analyze how the acute civil-military regime objectifies nature, dominating it and integrating it with a modernizing and technocratic project that they wished to implant in Brazil after the 1964 coup. The magazines of great national circulation – especially those that used the technique of photojournalism, O Cruzeiro and Manchete – make up the documentary corpus of the research, which is based both on the image analysis of the photographs and on the speeches conveyed in the texts of the photoreports. Going further, I sought to understand how this conception aimed to reach the Brazilian population widely, printing new forms of identification in it, consistent with the country in formation, that is, the “Brasil Grande”.