Conflitos socioambientais no estado de Sergipe: natureza, elementos deflagradores e sujeitos políticos envolvidos

• Ano de defesa: 2019
• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Jane Mara de Araújo
• Orientador(a): Araújo, Nailsa Maria Souza
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Serviço Social
• Palavras-chave em Português: Serviço social; Espaço, sociedade e meio ambiente; Sergipe (SE); Agronegócio; Meio ambiente; Aspectos sociais; Conflito social; Novo imperialismo; Acumulação por despossessão; Conflito socioambiental; Estado
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: New imperialism; Accumulation by dispossession; Socio-environmental conflict; State; Agribusiness
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/14024

This dissertation had as object of study the analysis of social and environmental conflicts in the state of Sergipe. The main objective was to analyze the aspects that involve the nature, the triggering elements and the constitution of the political subjects involved in these conflicts. The method used to understand the object studied was dialectical historical materialism. It was a qualitative research of documentary and bibliographic nature, of exploratory character. The main documentary sources used were: the Map of Conflicts Involving Environmental Injustice and Health in Brazil, by FIOCRUZ (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation); and the reports of the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) regarding the occurrence of conflicts in Brazil from 2010 to 2018. Initially, it sought to reflect the “new imperialism” and its relation to the “environmental issue” and the debate of conflicts. social and environmental Then, the approaches to the object led us to the debate of the insertion of the Northeast region of Brazil in the International Labor Division (DIT), in the current stage of capitalist development. Based on these bases, we could apprehend that the emergence and deepening of socio-environmental conflicts is umbilically related to the current crisis of capital and its ways and attempts to confront it, which is particularly through the expansion of its bases of exploitation of capital. Man and nature. We identified the disputed natural resources and the main causes of social and environmental conflicts in the state of Sergipe. Finally, we analyze the constitution of the political subjects involved in social and environmental conflicts and their relationship with the state. The results revealed that, in the scenario of the structural crisis of capital, the new imperialism and its effects, determined by the process of “accumulation by dispossession”, deepened man's “metabolic failure” with nature and, consequently, sharpened the “environmental issue”. And socio-environmental conflicts. The plundering of the natural resources of the peripheral countries as a priority and their wasteful use cause irreversible planetary consequences. Nations such as Brazil, and notably the Northeast and Sergipe, for possessing considerable volumes of natural wealth, have become the scene of socio-environmental conflicts within the current framework of ecological imperialism supremacy. We note that the northeastern region has a productive base focused on agribusiness expansion and commodity production/exportation. The data also showed that in the Sergipe state, social and environmental conflicts involve the dispute for land and water resources and that the main triggering element is agribusiness. Furthermore, we conclude that the main subject of the sectors of capital involved in the conflicts are the farmers/landlords and the main representative subject of the working class is the collective organizations of the working class (Social Movements/Associations/NGOs). In the relation between the conflicts of the fractions of these classes, the State acts, contradictorily, as a subject that triggers conflicts and/or as a supportive subject of capital and the working class.