'O mistério do globo ocular': memória, jornalismo, cinema e meio ambiente

Abstract

This paper aims to remember the emergence of the eye disease of unknown etiology that affected the residents of Araguatins-TO, between the years 2005 and 2006, taking into account the environmental, social, and economic impacts for the city. Analyzing the context of 16 years since the appearance of the disease, until then unheard in the world, this research aims to shed light on the discussions about what caused the mysterious disease, its social implications and how the fact still causes strangeness and remains in the imagination and memory of the population affected by the disease. Although the theme has been silenced, the present study seeks to capture the memory of those involved in order to understand the reason for the forgetfulness. Starting from a multi- methodological approach due to the complexity of the themes observed (Environmental Journalism, Documentary Cinema and Memory), each of the three chapters is guided by a social research method, being in Chapter 2 - Environmental Journalism, the Content Analysis, Chapter 3 the In-Depth Interview and Chapter 4 the Phenomenological Method, through Giorgi's Method of identifying the Meaning Units through the transcripts of interviews used in the documentary "The Mystery of the Eyeball". In three distinct moments and of analysis, this work remains with the gaze fixed on the Araguaia River, responsible for conducting the history of that community, but which probably could be the causative factor of the eye disease