O processo decisório dos Terena

• Autor(a) principal: Baltazar, Paulo
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• 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/3218
• topic: Lideranças Terena; Processo decisório; Gasoduto; Decision-making process; Terena leadership; Bolivia-Brazil gas pipeline; Negotiations; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS

In the 1980s, several government-sponsored projects were directed at improving the relationship between the Terena people and the white population. The most recent of those projects the construction of a gas pipeline running from Bolivia to Brazil served as a test case in that relationship. The negotiations around the implementation of the project brought to the surface the contrast between the decision making process which is characteristic of the Terena people and that of the non-indigenous authorities and their organizations in question. Up until then, the Terena leadership had never been consulted or invited to participate in the planning stage of projects aimed at the indigenous population. As a consequence, most of those projects and public policies have failed, due to the fact that they had been decided in the offices of the bureaucrats without the input of the receptors. The highlight of the gas pipeline project negotiations happened during a meeting between the representatives of the national and international agencies involved in the project, on the one hand, and the Terena leadership, on the other, whose venue was in Campo Grande, the capital of the State. On that occasion, the Terena clashed with the white representatives who proposed using the geographical distance between the Terena settlements and the actual pipeline as the sole factor in the financial compensation for the impact which the project would have on the indigenous territory and population. The argument advanced by the Terena leadership, at the time, was that the criterion proposed was contrary to their traditional decision making process. The Terena make their group decisions on the basis of the interaction between the extended family groups as well as the reciprocity of interests within their communities. The present study describes and analyzes negotiation which took place around the gas pipeline project vis-à-vis the features of the decision-making process which is characteristic of the Terena people. The chronology of the negotiation process is given as well as the attending results which derived from the entire process itself