Santa Fé e a dimensão pedagógica: território, governo, biopoder e memória no cinema ambiental

Abstract

The prison cell is one of the extreme forms of isolation of an individual or group from the rest of the society that they belong to. It is a disciplinary space where sentences are served for a predetermined amount of time, away from society. However, families have been told to live in the pavilions of a penitentiary in the village of Santa Fé, which are the remains of a prison colony which was never activated, after being built in the 1970s in the town of União dos Palmares (AL). From 1989, a series of floodings of the Mundaú River affected the region, causing the public authorities to institute that the aforementioned penitentiary be used as provisional housing for over one hundred families, even creating a public school and health clinic in the location. Thus, from this complex scenario, this study's goal is to analyze cinema as a pedagogical strategy for critical environmental education, contextualized to the territory of Santa Fé. For this purpose, we performed an ethnographic research through field records, semi-structured interviews as well as photographic and video records in the community during the period of July 2013 to November 2015, using the school Maria Mariá de Castro Sarmento as our investigation location in this work of research. We aimed to align this school with a metaphor for the surveillance space and asked ourselves: How can cinema be a strategy to contribute with environmental education processes that reveal contradictions, the potentialities and possibilities of an educative action that settles in Santa Fé's reality? Thus, we aim to amplify the dialogue about territoriality, governmentality and environmental justice as approaches and foundations for the structuring of educational actions that allow the magnification of the reading of the relationships between individuals and this complex scenario in which they attempt to live their lives. By means of analysis of the records and interviews, in an intervention called portable memory, it was possible to consider that: the community perceives their vulnerability in relation to the territory, the school doesn't align with the local reality in their pedagogical strategies, and that the environmental cinema revealed itself and excellent strategy by revealing, through the words of locals, elements that structure and support environmental education proposals contextualized to the local realities of Santa Fé.