A importância do estudo da teoria crítica das tecnologias na implantação de tecnologias de prevenção de risco ambiental

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Ettore Tosi Pinto Mendonça de [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/140196; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/capelo/2016-06-21/000866851.pdf
• topic: Catastrofes naturais; Teoria crítica; Tecnologia; Prevenção de calamidades públicas

This study aims to verify the importance of the study of politics inherent in the technologies to adopt more democratic risk prevention technologies in the municipalities by (i) researching risks and disasters in the general literature and also the ones involving São Luiz do Paraitinga; (ii) describing the technologies used to prevent risks in this municipality; (iii) structuring the knowledge of the critical theory of technology; (iv) analyzing risk prevention technologies in the light of the critical theory of technology; (v) presenting the findings on the analysis results. To this end, it was carried out an exploratory research using as data collection methods the research on literature and on documents and the case study that took advantage of field research. It was made up the theoretical framework and with the application of interviews describing the characteristics of the disaster occurred in 2010 in São Luiz do Paraitinga and the current technologies to prevent risks from flooding. From the data analysis it was observed that, in general, the technologies in question are operating characteristics and access that make them compatible with democratic politics and community involvement, and also preserving what we call human character. However, their potential can still be exploited and its constraints and limiting characteristics can be overcome. That way, through the study, we could demonstrate significant intersections between studies on risk and critical theory of technology, revealing a large potential of contribution to further development in the future study on the integrated study of these two fields of knowledge. The analyzed technologies represent a particularly benefited portion of the development of this intercom themes. After all, technologies used for the prevention of risk, in essence, its purposes, should not develop in a not humanitarian way