ABSTRACT
The article aims to investigate Gilberto Freyre’s ecological and environmental discourses in two distinct but interrelated historical moments. In the first moment, this work analyzes newspaper articles published by the Diário de Pernambuco in the 1920s, particularly in 1924, when the young Freyre wrote a series of texts in defense of the arborization of Recife. The second moment, in the 1930s, was marked by the publication of Nordeste, book from 1937, in which the sociologist from Pernambuco criticized the environmental devastation of the Coastal Strip and the sugar mill complex. Freyre approached ecological questions within the intellectual and political architecture that characterized his work, intertwined with the defense of the tropics and Iberian traditions.
KEYWORDS:
Gilberto Freyre; Ecology; Tropics; Northeast; Region