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Não há peixe para pescar neste verão: efeitos socioambientais durante a construção de grandes barragens – o caso Belo Monte
Author(s) -
Sônia Barbosa Magalhães,
Ygor Yuri Pereira da Silva,
Cleice da Luz Vidal
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
desenvolvimento e meio ambiente/desenvolvimento e meio ambiente
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.15
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2176-9109
pISSN - 1518-952X
DOI - 10.5380/dma.v37i0.45595
Subject(s) - humanities , philosophy
Most anthropological studies do not analyzes the environmental effects of the construction of large dams. In this text, from field research conducted in the Belo Monte construction context, we intend to show how, from the point of view of those who experience them, the social and environmental effects of the pre-operation period are not negligible or merely temporary. During construction, the flow of machines, equipment and personnel for the construction site and its surroundings focus on territories and natural resources that are condition for social and economic reproduction of people and communities. The accumulated traditional knowledge provides the seizure of subtle changes in the environment, including fish behavior and other components of the aquatic fauna, changes in water turbidity, vegetation and other, as well as changes in social relations, including restrictions on the movement of people and objects. The gradient magnitude can not be out of the context in which it occurs. Should have as unit of measurement the lived sense. Institutionally and politically there must be recognition of the epistemology of production and reproduction of traditional knowledge, with appropriate channels so that the evaluations produced from it are also considered