Seen as the dissemination of cultural output from a social agent through the submission of a population and nature, colonization follows the ongoing globalization of the contemporary world. From some poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade on to discuss the consequences of mineral extraction on Itabira's landscape, this article aims the impact of the charging landscape, guided by interests alien to the local population, its roots and social memory. This essay suggests that, in such conditions, the memory takes on forms of resistance to the evils generated by this mode of contact with the outer world.
colonization; memory; unrooting