Imperialismo e missões científicas no Brasil Central - a atuação da FBC/SUDECO

Abstract

This study analyzes the scientific research organized by the Central Brazil Foundation (FBC) and the Developmental Authority of the Center-West Region (SUDECO) in partnership with international research institutions between the years 1943 and 1991. Much of this research has been configured as important scientific endeavors aimed at understanding the natural potential of the Central Brazil territory. Both FBC and SUDECO had the objective of promoting the economic and social development of the Central-West region, being its area of activity the states of Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Goiás, as well as the so-called Federal Territory of Rondônia State of Rondônia) and the Federal District. Therefore, the objective of the research is to analyze the imperialist policy contained in these studies and research proposed by these institutions, understanding that such research had not only the purpose of covering questions related to knowledge itself, but also had the objective of serving as an instrument of territorial domination in the framework of a dependent and peripheral capitalism.