Eletroestratégias como mecanismos de acumulação por espoliação : conflitos socioambientais nas bacias dos rios Ivaí e Piquiri

Albuquerque, Ralph de Medeiros. Electro Strategies as accumulation by dispossession mechanisms: social-environmental conflicts in the basins of rivers Ivaí and Piquiri. 262 fls. Dissertation (Master Degree) Graduate Diploma in Environment and Rural Development, Faculty Planaltina UNB, University of Brasília. Brasília, 2015. The Brazilian electricity sector has used severalstrategies to achieve advantages in manyfields: political, ideological, financial and economic. These advantages consists in the electroestrategies. These embracefrom sustainabilitynarratives, through changes in industry regulations, including flexibilities in environmental laws, to the denial and/or withdrawal of social actors rights historically invisible, always aiming to obtain advantages and public incentives for the sector in the financialization process and capitalist accumulation. One of the dimensions used by electroestrategiesto earnbenefits and to demonstrate environmental virtuosity has been the appropriation of the concept of sustainability. The sector arrogated to themself this notion and, although highly predatory, has spread the discourse that produces clean, cheap and sustainable energy. From a critical view of electroestrategies, this paper investigates and analyzes the environmental conflicts related to hydroelectric projects in the basins of Ivaí and Piquiri rivers, in the state of Paraná. Methodologically the prospect of conflicts addressed was the ethnography of conflicts aiming to emphasize the conflicts in the study area, without, however, invisible-the actors involved in these processes. What is happening is that the electroestrategies, accumulation by dispossession and environmental conflicts have been advancing together, in function of the social and environmental injustices imposed on rural populations (peasants, farmers, fishermen, agrarian reform settlers, indigenous peoples, “quilomolas”, etc.). This reality of conflicts and disputes organizes actors, and the "greening" has been usedby many actors as a strategy, like a real way to justify practices or merely as discursive tactics.