Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaCrisis Intertwined by Collapse of Dams: from Reconnecting Spaces to Hesitating Narratives
In Brazil, dams of different sizes and purposes have broken down relatively frequently in recent decades. Such occurrences trigger disasters, which becomes an additional reason to problematize the implementation of these enterprises. Both crisis management and media narratives can act as filters tha...
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| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
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Instituto de Estudios Avanzados - Universidad de Santiago de Chile
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.usach.cl/ojs/index.php/ideas/article/view/4274 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/79552 |
| Sumario: | In Brazil, dams of different sizes and purposes have broken down relatively frequently in recent decades. Such occurrences trigger disasters, which becomes an additional reason to problematize the implementation of these enterprises. Both crisis management and media narratives can act as filters that contribute to hide socially relevant dimensions of the problem by making others visible. This sociological reflection points out some socio-spatial and discursive aspects about this game of showing and hiding the magnitude of the socioenvironmental crisis. Three cases are focused on, respectively, those related to the rupture of the dam of Algodões 1, in the state of Piauí, ortheast region, occurred in 2009; Fundão, in the state of Minas Gerais, Southeast region, in 2015, and Paragominas dams, in Pará, North region, occurred in 2018. We conclude that the disaster is not a one-off crisis, but the apex of a technocratic logic of risk underestimation in which media coverage predisposes to replicate the official narrative, resulting in a loss of subsidies to a more critical social public consciousness. |
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