Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: HUGO FELIPE DE LIRA MOTA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : HUGO FELIPE DE LIRA MOTA
DATE: 21/12/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Google Meet
TITLE:

“Invading” the invaders: how the Great Phylloxera Plague affected French
colonization in Algeria (1885-1914)

KEY WORDS:

Algeria; Colonization; Phylloxera; Environmental History;
More-than-human History

PAGES: 166
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

Here we analyze interspecific relationships between Homo sapiens (human beings),
Vitis spp. (vines) and Daktulosphaira vitifoliae (grape phylloxeras) in Algeria between
1885 and 1914. This interval corresponds respectively to the first officially recorded
appearance of the insect in the territory and the mark of the end of the Belle époque,

with the beginning of the First World War, which also brought changes to the colonial
relationship and the global wine market. Here we employ the perspective of
Environmental History and More-than-Human History to analyze how the Phyloxeric
War - which already ongoing in Europe in the second half of the 19th century -
continued on the stage of colonial Algeria as part of the competition between humans
and D. vitifoliae for the exploitation of Vitis spp. resources. To this end, this research
will also cover the topics of Algerian colonization by France, the relationship between
vines and phylloxeras, the appearance of these in Europe, the establishment of wine
cultivation in the Maghreb colony and the various economic, legal, political, social,
landscape and cultural impacts that the presence of the insect had in Algeria.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - ***.141.624-** - JOSE MARCELO MARQUES FERREIRA FILHO - UFPE
Interno - UIRAN GEBARA DA SILVA
Externa à Instituição - PATRÍCIA PINHEIRO DE MELO - UFPE