SOCIAL (DIS)PROTECTION AND TECHNOLOGICAL DISASTER: A STUDY ON PROTECTIVE MEASURES FOR COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY SAMARCO/VALE/BHP BILLITON
Name: JOÃO MARCOS MATTOS MARIANO
Publication date: 12/12/2022
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| DANIEL PEREIRA SAMPAIO | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ALINE FAÉ STOCCO | External Examiner * |
| CAMILLA DOS SANTOS NOGUEIRA | External Examiner * |
| DANIEL PEREIRA SAMPAIO | Advisor * |
| JEANE ANDRÉIA FERRAZ SILVA | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: Study on social protection for the people affected by the Samarco/Vale/BHP
Billiton disaster in the Doce River, prepared as a dissertation presented to
the Master`s board in Social Policy of the Federal University of Espírito
Santo. A critical bibliographic research was carried out, which scoured the
studies in social policy and documents (minutes, deliberations and technical
notes) produced by the Interfederative Committee (and the respective
Technical Chambers of interest), as the plural government collegiate
responsible for the supervision and guidance of compliance with the Terms of
Transaction and Conduct Adjustment (TTAC) signed to promote the reparation of
socio-environmental damage caused from the rupture of the tailing dam of
Fundão, in Mariana/MG. The goal of this was to advance studies on social
protection in the context of technological disasters, mainly with the
objective of increasing the theoretical tooling available for the people
affected by this type of destructive event. The main objective of the
research was to try to analyze how social protection for the affected
communities is normatively configured (in its scope) and how it is part of
the landmarks of Brazilian capitalism. For this, the conformation of the
Brazilian capitalist State was briefly analyzed, as the synergy between
private capital and public determinations resulted in the molding of the
capixaba part of the Doce river valley and, also, how these configurations
contributed to the occurrence of the disaster. It was noticed that there is a
link between the predatory exploitation of mineral resources
(neoextractivism), the development model adopted in Brazil and the racist and
technocratic modus operandi that marks the insertion of Brazilian social
formation in the capitalist mode of production. The social protection
structure created for the people affected and the neoliberal theoretical
frameworks that serve as the foundation for the current Brazilian social
policy were related. It was concluded for now that the marks of the national
system of protection (focalization, privatization and decentralization),
combined with the control of the process of supposed restoration by the
polluting companies, exacerbated the general deficiencies of the model in the
case analyzed.
