LAS IMPERIOSAS RUTAS DEL “PROGRESO”. HISTORIA AMBIENTAL, REPRESENTACIONES SOCIALES Y EXPLORACIÓN DECIMONÓNICA: ELEMENTOS CONCEPTUALES Y EMPÍRICOS PARA EL ESTUDIO DEL IMAGINARIO AMBIENTAL DE LA COSTA RICA DEL SIGLO XIX

Authors

  • Anthony Goebel Mc Dermott Universidad de Costa Rica Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15517/dre.v9i2.6150

Keywords:

Environmental history, social representations, nature, explorers, Costa Rica

Abstract

This article makes an evaluation of several “predominant” points of view concerning the study of the relationship between society and nature in the past, focusing particularly on its symbolic-representative dimension. Likewise, based on the abovementioned conceptual reference, this work analyzes the different ways in which the explorers that visited Costa Rica in the XIX Century, valuated the roads and means of communication as a part of what they believed to be “indispensable pre-requisites” for the essential productive reorganization of an idle and pristine Nature, which had no value whatsoever as long as it remained barred from the dynamics of the capitalist market. 

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Author Biography

  • Anthony Goebel Mc Dermott, Universidad de Costa Rica

    Magister Scientiae en Historia por la Universidad de Costa Rica. Docente en la Escuela de Historia e Investigador del Centro de Investigaciones Geofísicas (CIGEFI) de esa casa de estudios

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Published

2008-08-08

How to Cite

LAS IMPERIOSAS RUTAS DEL “PROGRESO”. HISTORIA AMBIENTAL, REPRESENTACIONES SOCIALES Y EXPLORACIÓN DECIMONÓNICA: ELEMENTOS CONCEPTUALES Y EMPÍRICOS PARA EL ESTUDIO DEL IMAGINARIO AMBIENTAL DE LA COSTA RICA DEL SIGLO XIX . (2008). Diálogos. Revista Electrónica De Historia, 9(2), 23-53. https://doi.org/10.15517/dre.v9i2.6150

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