Memória e temporalidade no acidente com o Césio-137 (Goiás, 1987)

Abstract

This research work analyzes the accident in Goiania involving the cesium-137 focusing in narragatives that contribute to their forgerfulness by the state and the society. In this sense, we explore how technological disasters are erased by the colective memory and public policies dispute their long consequences. Moreover, we explore historical, social, political and economical contexts of Brazil of the 1980s. Finally, we discuss the relations between memory, trauma and forgetfulness enphatizing the importance of historiographic approaches that depict and recognize these events to avoid their marginalization and forgetfulness.