Abstract
Abstract This research seeks to analyze the contributions of repertoires of collective actions in the organization of those affected by dams based on a study of the Itapebi Hydroelectric Power Plant. The repertoires of collective actions in this article are inspired by the author Charles Tilly and originate from the field of the theory of political sociology of social movements, defined as a set of forms of action in which there is political motivation. The initial assumption of the research is that the repertoires of collective actions created at the local level play a crucial role in the organization of those affected by the hydroelectric plant under study and help sustain the national demands of the Movement of Those Affected by Dams. The results of the research indicate that, through local experience, lived over the years by those involved, these repertoires have performed not only a central function in the organization of those affected in relation to compensatory issues proposals by the company responsible for the Itapebi enterprise, but also in the creation and strengthening public policies that will absorb local demands and their articulation with the national movement of the those by dams.
Highlights
As a result of this pressure and by demand of the National Environmental Council (Conama, in Portuguese), an advisory and deliberative body of the National Environmental System, Environmental Impact Studies (EIA) and Environmental Impact Reports (RIMA) of these enterprises were performed after the mid-80s, some of which counted on scientific collaboration by universities
The environmental studies that used to be carried out by international consulting companies hired by the electric energy segment had to conform to the EIA and RIMA guidelines proposed by Conama (Teixeira, 1995)
Pioneering experiences of people affected by dams that originated Movement of Those Affected by Dams (MAB), as the highest national forum assembling diverse forms of collective actions, stemmed from the movement of expropriated people from Itaipu, followed by the organization of the ones affected by the “Uruguay Project” in the south of Brazil, and by the organization of those affected by the Sobradinho Dam in Bahia (Sigaud, 1986)
Summary
Studies on populations affected by energy production dams have been the object of research in social and human sciences, both in national and international literature since the last decades of the 20th century. Despite recognizing the importance of the Movement of Those Affected by Dams as a leading national actor, this research intends to evince that, in the studied experience, since the beginning of the construction of the Hydroelectric Plant of Itapebi in 1997, there was autonomous leadership in local political organization for more than 20 years before the arrival of the MAB in the municipality, in 2015. Pioneering experiences of people affected by dams that originated MAB, as the highest national forum assembling diverse forms of collective actions, stemmed from the movement of expropriated people from Itaipu, followed by the organization of the ones affected by the “Uruguay Project” in the south of Brazil, and by the organization of those affected by the Sobradinho Dam in Bahia (Sigaud, 1986) Among these pioneering experiences, we highlight the “Uruguay Project”, which stablished the construction of 25 hydroelectric plants (Scherer-Warren & Reis, 2008). Civil society was organized into different levels of association that were structured based on interests, values, and citizenship achievement, in which social actions and demonstrations became symbolic expressions and exerted political pressure, focused from start on creating chances aiming at social and public policies that have not been presented by the State with its economic enterprises
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