OS LIMITES DA DEMOCRATIZAÇÃO DO PROCESSO DE INSTALAÇÃO DE HIDRELÉTRICAS

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Humberto José
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Debates
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/debates/article/view/28462
• topic: Democracia; Hidrelétrica; Projeto Político.

Considering the prominence of neo-liberal globalized world, large-scale works such as hydroelectric power (HEP) correspond to political projects designed and made possible by business groups and international agencies as well as companies and governments of the countries where they will be executed. The inclusion of these projects in their local happens from the mobilization of social actors based on a supposed regional development, in contrast to other groups that resist the inclusion of such a possibility in view of environmental impacts and the compulsory relocation of the local population. In Brazil the inclusion of such large scale projects occurs through a licensing process that provides for the democratization of discussion with the local society in order to legitimize a project that has the legality conferred by the State. This paper analyzes the inclusion of hydroelectric plants as large-scale projects that seek inclusion in certain places, where they mobilize forces for and against establishing the work power relations in the conflict between two distinct political projects: a neoliberal, created by entrepreneurs and their mediators, in contrast to the participatorydemocratic project, represented mainly by the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB). Given that this conflict occurs in a democratic scenario, we analyze which aspects may suggest asymmetries in power to represent the imposition of global projects to local communities, which to some extent, can be regarded as oppressive measures.