THE STRATEGY OF INTEGRATION OF THE SOUTH OF THE STATE OF MATO GROSSO TO THE NATIONAL TERRITORY DURING THE GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT VARGAS: AN ANALYSIS FROM THE FOUNDATION OF NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL COLONY OF DOURADOS IN 1943

Authors

  • Walter Guedes Silva Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/rdg.v31i0.102834

Keywords:

colonization, small land property, regional integration

Abstract

The call for nationalism marked the speech of the Brazilian Republican President Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945), who used the media to convene workers to conquer the national territory, through the colonizing and migration policy in accordance with the need for territorial integration and the country’s industrialization. Therefore, Vargas created eight National Agricultural Colonies, among them, the National Agricultural Colony of Dourados in the south of Mato Grosso, which has become the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The aim of this article is to analyze the foundation of the Colônia Agrícola Nacional (National Agricultural Colony) of Dourados in 1943, as a way to guarantee the integrity of the border between Brazil and Paraguay and the integration of the area covered by this colonizing project to the national territory. The used procedure was the historical review which revealed the ideals of Vargas’s presidency in order to establish policies that (re)structured the regional territory into small family farms, assuring the integration of this area to the national market as a producer of raw material and recipient of migratory flows.

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Author Biography

  • Walter Guedes Silva, Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul
    Possui licenciatura e bacharelado em Geografia pelo Centro Universitário de Dourados da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (1997), mestrado em Desenvolvimento Sustentável pela Universidade de Brasília (2002) e doutorado em Geografia Humana pela Universidade de São Paulo (2011). Professor do Curso de Geografia, Licenciatura e Bacharelado, da Unidade Universitária de Campo Grande da Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul. Tem experiência na área de Geografia, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: desenvolvimento regional, geografia agrária e desenvolvimento sustentável.

Published

2016-07-24

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How to Cite

Silva, W. G. (2016). THE STRATEGY OF INTEGRATION OF THE SOUTH OF THE STATE OF MATO GROSSO TO THE NATIONAL TERRITORY DURING THE GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT VARGAS: AN ANALYSIS FROM THE FOUNDATION OF NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL COLONY OF DOURADOS IN 1943. Revista Do Departamento De Geografia, 31, 26-42. https://doi.org/10.11606/rdg.v31i0.102834