4º Congresso Mundial de História Ambiental, Oulu | Participation in the 4th WCEH, Oulu | ago 2024
Título | Title
4º Congresso Mundial de História Ambiental, Oulu | Participation in the 4th WCEH, Oulu | ago 2024
Data | Date
19-23/08/2024
Notícia | News
O projeto FIREUSES esteve presente na 4ª. edição do Congresso Mundial de História Ambiental, em Oulu, na Finlândia. A nossa participação foi online e consistiu em duas contribuições. Joana Sousa e Marta Nunes Silva apresentaram uma comunicação intitulada “Fire acceleration and dissonances in forest plantation economies” no âmbito do painel “Forest, time and society”. A comunicação reflete as primeiras tentativas de colocar os dois estudos de caso, as serras da Lapa e da Nave e a serra de Monchique, em diálogo no que se refere à história do controlo do fogo e suas transformações e valorizando tanto as fontes orais e como documentais recolhidas. Por seu lado, os investigadores José Miguel Ferreira, Inês Gomes e Frederico Ágoas participaram no painel “Forest and forestry in retrospect. Examining forest history in environmental perspectives” com a comunicação “‘The most terrible enemy’: a fiery history of forest policies in the Portuguese New State”. Esta apresentação procurou sintetizar a pesquisa que estes três investigadores têm dedicado à história política e científica do fogo em Portugal entre o século XIX e o presente, interrogando como as políticas florestais do Estado Novo, inseridas num programa mais vasto de transformação e apropriação do território nacional, levaram à consagração de uma conceção ideal de floresta sem fogo. Neste sentido, a comunicação mostrou como a interrogação sobre como o fogo se tornou no “mais terrível inimigo” da floresta é indispensável para compreender os discursos políticos e científicos sobre a floresta e o fogo e para abordar o atual regime de grandes incêndios que caracteriza Portugal.
The FIREUSES project was present online at the 4th edition of the World Congress of Environmental History in Oulu, Finland, with two contributions. Joana Sousa and Marta Nunes Silva presented a communication entitled “Fire Acceleration and Dissonances in forest plantation economy” as part of the “Forest, time and society” panel. This communication was based on oral and documentary sources and it corresponds to the first attempts to put the two case studies, Lapa-Nave and Monchique, in dialogue as it relates to the history of fire control and its transformations. Researchers Jose Miguel Ferreira, Inês Gomes and Frederico Ágoas contributed to the panel “Forest and forestry in retrospect. Examining forest history in environmental perspectives” with the communication “‘The most Terrible Enemy: A Fiery History of Forest Policies in the Portuguese New State”. This presentation sought to bring together the ongoing research on the political and scientific history of fire in Portugal from the 19th century onward. They interrogated how the afforestation policies pursued by the Estado Novo (New State) dictatorship between the late-1920s and the early-1970s, as part of a broader programme of remaking of the national territory, led to the emergence of an ideal conception of a forest without fire. By analysing how fire became the “most terrible enemy” of forests and foresters, the presentation argued that questioning the history of political and scientific discourses around fire and forests is essential to understand the current socioecological regime of devastating fires in Portugal.
The FIREUSES project was present online at the 4th edition of the World Congress of Environmental History in Oulu, Finland, with two contributions. Joana Sousa and Marta Nunes Silva presented a communication entitled “Fire Acceleration and Dissonances in forest plantation economy” as part of the “Forest, time and society” panel. This communication was based on oral and documentary sources and it corresponds to the first attempts to put the two case studies, Lapa-Nave and Monchique, in dialogue as it relates to the history of fire control and its transformations. Researchers Jose Miguel Ferreira, Inês Gomes and Frederico Ágoas contributed to the panel “Forest and forestry in retrospect. Examining forest history in environmental perspectives” with the communication “‘The most Terrible Enemy: A Fiery History of Forest Policies in the Portuguese New State”. This presentation sought to bring together the ongoing research on the political and scientific history of fire in Portugal from the 19th century onward. They interrogated how the afforestation policies pursued by the Estado Novo (New State) dictatorship between the late-1920s and the early-1970s, as part of a broader programme of remaking of the national territory, led to the emergence of an ideal conception of a forest without fire. By analysing how fire became the “most terrible enemy” of forests and foresters, the presentation argued that questioning the history of political and scientific discourses around fire and forests is essential to understand the current socioecological regime of devastating fires in Portugal.
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