A vida dos moradores da comunidade Santa Rita com a implantação da empresa Rio Paracatu Mineração RPM

• Autor(a) principal: Duarte, Aparecida de Fátima Coelho
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/17964
• topic: Questão ambiental; Comunidade Santa Rita; Modo de vida; Rio Paracatu Mineracao S. A (MG); Santa Rita de Jacutinga, MG -- Condicoes sociais; Minas e mineracao -- Santa Rita de Jacutinga, MG -- Aspectos ambientais; Environmental issues; Community Santa Rita; Way of life; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL

This thesis aim to know and understand the social, economic and cultural changes that occur in the way of life of rural Santa Rita s residents, with the arrived of the company Paracatu River Mining SA (RPM), in 1987, in Paracatu, State of Minas Gerais. Santa Rita are a traditional community, consisting of small producers who survive with the family agriculture, located below tailings dam of the firm. The RPM is controlled by transnational Canadian Kinross Gold Corporation, which runs its third expansion project at Paracatu. This project extends for more 30 years the expectation of exploitation of deposits and increases the production of gold from five to 15 tonnes per year. The environmental issue that has emerged from economic model of capitalist production is the axis of this theoretical work that follows an interdisciplinary view of the complexity issue. The reflections are done recovering the source of the environmental issue for science, the social and political milieu, contextualizing the mining company Rio Paracatu - RPM on the global and local scene. In this content, analyzes the changes that occur in the way of life of Santa Rita s residents with the implementation of RPM. The research was made by the participant observation, semi-structured interviews with dwellers and importants comunity persons, forms, documents studies, newspaper, books and Internet analises, seeking discover the environmental issues that occur locally and creating some prospective orientations