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Pós-modernidade e risco na Bacia Hidrográfica do Alto Paranapanema: a construção social da subpolítica ambiental no município de Piraju (SP)
During the twentieth century the hydroelectric industry was responsible for most of the energy supply in Brazil. However, more recently it has been identified as responsible for a major expansion of environmental degradation. From various evidences filed on damages to the natural environment, some places that are recipients of these hydroelectric projects began to reflect more deeply about the inherent risks to the social and cultural development of the energy matrix. The presence of systematic problems in the environmental field has brought a real possibility of social interference, via new political arrangements, as well as sub-political, through new social institutions, whether federal, state and even municipal, and certain local legal institutions. On the one hand the recognition that such activities do not degrade the environment ensures that measures are taken; on the other hand, it contributes greatly to the development of new moral standards of social and political action. The aim of this paper is to understand and present what were the main social motivations for the city of Piraju (SP) to recently develop and approve a package of highly restrictive measures to hydroelectric activities. We are also interested in exposing how was the process of social construction of a legal and regulatory framework reflective of municipal jurisdiction, and to what extent the study of this constructionist process can corroborate contemporary social theories. Through a case study, we sought to understand the trajectory of a local group ideologically tied to environmental ideals, and, as a variant of this interest, the analysis of the nature of some questions contributed to postmodern deconstruction of developmentalism in the field of hydropower.
Pós-modernidade e risco na Bacia Hidrográfica do Alto Paranapanema: a construção social da subpolítica ambiental no município de Piraju (SP)
During the twentieth century the hydroelectric industry was responsible for most of the energy supply in Brazil. However, more recently it has been identified as responsible for a major expansion of environmental degradation. From various evidences filed on damages to the natural environment, some places that are recipients of these hydroelectric projects began to reflect more deeply about the inherent risks to the social and cultural development of the energy matrix. The presence of systematic problems in the environmental field has brought a real possibility of social interference, via new political arrangements, as well as sub-political, through new social institutions, whether federal, state and even municipal, and certain local legal institutions. On the one hand the recognition that such activities do not degrade the environment ensures that measures are taken; on the other hand, it contributes greatly to the development of new moral standards of social and political action. The aim of this paper is to understand and present what were the main social motivations for the city of Piraju (SP) to recently develop and approve a package of highly restrictive measures to hydroelectric activities. We are also interested in exposing how was the process of social construction of a legal and regulatory framework reflective of municipal jurisdiction, and to what extent the study of this constructionist process can corroborate contemporary social theories. Through a case study, we sought to understand the trajectory of a local group ideologically tied to environmental ideals, and, as a variant of this interest, the analysis of the nature of some questions contributed to postmodern deconstruction of developmentalism in the field of hydropower.
Pós-modernidade e risco na Bacia Hidrográfica do Alto Paranapanema: a construção social da subpolítica ambiental no município de Piraju (SP)
José Luiz Fernandes Cerveira Filho (author)
2012
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