As ações sociais da Irmã Serafina Cinque na Transamazônica (1970-1979) e as aproximações teóricas de Paul Ricoeur sobre o sentido de esperança

Abstract

The Transamazônica highway is 50 years old. By delimiting this period, the text exposes to interested readings five possible parties of its history. Certain that a reliable portrait of its trajectory is infactible in History studies, we assume the deliberate selection of episodes found in consulted sources and documents, so that we could somehow represent the countless faces of such an object. We started with the prefix “trans” as a device for interpreting the word “transamazônica”. When determining such a prefix as an enhancer of meanings, we can identify other qualities and understandings for this road than just a transport infrastructure. The Transamazônica highway is, above all, an action, surrounded by innumerable attributes: is to transfigure by symbologies, it is to go through scales, it is to transform by technification, it is to show through utopian landscapes, it is upsetting by the invisible. They are portraits of a highway that the forest, in its own way, managed to tame. But until when?