"Jorrar água sobre esta cidade": uma história ambiental do saneamento em Caxias do Sul (1875 -1928)

Abstract

The issue of sanitation and its environmental implications is one of the most urgent and poorly resolved in Brazil, so that a large part of the population still does not have access to this essential service and its absence, or poor management, produces significant socioenvironmental impacts. The objective of this dissertation is to understand the implementation of sanitation services, from its human and non-human actors, in Caxias do Sul between the years 1875 and 1928, and to produce a short documentary that narrates part of this dynamic. The research was carried out using the documentation, text and images, produced by the Municipal Intendency and the press of the period. Bruno Latour's actor-network theory was the key to understanding the collective of human and non-human actors in association with sanitation and public hygiene practices. It was possible to verify the expansion of this collective and a series of landscape transformations resulting from the implementation of sanitation technologies, the increase in demographic density and the establishment of microorganisms that cause some diseases related to this process. Regarding the production of the documentary, was verified the relevance of the themes related to Environmental History and Environmental Education in History Teaching, as well as the importance of Public History and History Dissemination practices in order to expand the public and the social impact of researches in History. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]