THE FLAME BURNING AGAINST THE WIND: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN NORTHERN BRAZIL IN THE FACE OF CAPITALIST TRAGEDY

Abstract

This paper investigates the relationship between the teaching of Environmental Education under the parameters of environmental complexity in the northern region of Brazil and the expanded scope of the ecosystemic impacts of free market capitalist logic on society. From this perspective, it is hoped to systemically criticize the anthropocentric character of capitalism on the environment and propose overcoming it by training ecological subjects from a tragic perspective. In order to fulfill this objective, a qualitative and interdisciplinary bibliographical study will be adopted, taking as a reference the environmental rationality of the Mexican economist Enrique Leff, the Pará-Amapá experience reported in the book Educação na diversidade: o que fazem as escolas que dizem que fazem Educação Ambiental and the critical approach of the anthropologist of Economics Karl Polanyi on economics, societies and the market; the support of this analysis will also be constituted by the semiotic reading of the paintings "David with the Head of Goliath" (1606), by the Italian Caravaggio, and "Candle" (1983), by the German Gerhard Richter. In the end, the results obtained must be superimposed retroactively in order to synthesize the panorama of the relationship studied, so as to make it possible to evaluate the potential of this analysis to foster a disruptive perspective, oriented towards an environmental pedagogical approach based on Economic Anthropology and socio-ecological awareness.