Nature and Heroic Gaucho in tangles of history: Foucauldian stresses

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to put in evidence the concept of the History of Present and Genealogy, starting from studies of the French philosopher Michel Foucault. Our proposal is in the problematization of the emergency of knowledge that, together with relations of strength, is creating a natural environment known for the idea of beauty and romanticism in the Pampa of Rio Grande do Sul. We demarcated, also, the conditions of emergency for the constitution of a gaucho individual seen as a hero since historical events and pampeana music. Based on Michel Foucault’s ideas, we problematized the elaboration of a geographic and cultural space known for its beauty, abundance, glories, and achievements. It is worth to stress the history when problematizing how relations between knowledge and power make the contemporary pampeano individual. It is in the intention of stressing established truths, which lead to a subjectivity of the individual constituted and involved in tangles of history, that this paper was written. Politics of gaucho formations and subjectivities deserve a careful and serious observation.