Name: Elvis Moreira Xavier
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 24/06/2019
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Sandro Jose da Silva | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Adriana Amaral Ferreira | External Examiner * |
| Cleyde Rodrigues Amorim | External Alternate * |
| Eliana Santos Junqueira Creado | Internal Alternate * |
| Marta Zorzal e Silva | Internal Examiner * |
| Sandro Jose da Silva | Advisor * |
Summary: The present dissertation focuses on the social and environmental disaster of Fundão in
Mariana MG that occurred in November 2015, specifically to analyze the family
representations around the implementation of the registration, compensation and
indemnification program for those affected. Through the Anthropological and Sociological
perspective the research is immersed in the community of Caieiras Velha in the city of
Aracruz - ES, one of the 12 indigenous villages present in the region of Piraquê-Açu.
Utilizing the ethnographic method between the periods of February and September of 2018,
each immersion in the field and through it detect sought a constant learning around the
research and through this to detect the web of relations present in the community that has a
modus operandi that is legitimized by its population in which, through family, parental and
community relations, forms a system of symbolic representation, composed of the cacique
elected by the community, together with 12 leaders who are responsible for deliberating
guidelines regarding community life and which the actions of the Renova Foundation. In this
context, it also includes the role of the associations present, focusing on two of them, the
AITG and APECI, both with different purposes, but with a lot of influence around the
collective discussions. With the interference of external agents in community life, above all,
the methodology of applicability of registration and consequently of emergency assistance,
tensions and conflicts have tainted the internal relations between families and the community,
causing in ruptures in their relations, so that the mobilization in the face of the action of
Renova Foundation occurs between the articulation between the Tupinikins families, the
leaderships and the cacique, along with the other indigenous villages. The exposed literature
will have two thematic axes, the first one to describe the category family to which through the
social, spatial, economic and cultural transformations reflected in its composition and gave
new narratives and perspectives around its importance and role in the reproduction of human
relations. The second axis will work with the conception of disaster carried out by Sociology
of Disasters in which this aspect of Social Sciences is focused on measuring and discussing
the phenomenon focusing on human aspects and contexts created from human action, whether
before, during and after from which disaster is understood not only as a phenomenon of
momentary affectation, but as a process of continuous affectation. In addition, the actions of
the Renova Foundation and the State in this context will be measured using the technical
notes issued by CTOS, a technical chamber belonging to the CIF, the body responsible for
regulating the actions of the Renova Foundation, focusing on the implementation of
registration, reimbursement and compensation for those affected by the disaster. In order to do
so, the implementation of the repair actions occurred in an asymmetrical, time-consuming and
distorted way, considering the real dimension of the impacts caused by the rupture of the dam,
from which the affected population absorbed the burden of this logic introduced by the
Renova Foundation, focusing on indigenous populations, object of this work.
