Abstract

LAVALLE, Adrian Gurza; LEIRNER, André; ALBUQUERQUE, Maria do Carmo A. de  and  RODRIGUES, Fernando Peres. The difficulties of participation: interests mismatchs in rio doce recovery. Rev. psicol. polít. [online]. 2019, vol.19, n.spe, pp. 121-145. ISSN 2175-1390.

Examining the experience of implementing a participatory technology (CRCMOP) in the communities affected by the Rio Doce disaster in Espírito Santo over two years reveals the difficulties of affected population participation in disaster management governance, specifically in taking part in the definition of reparation, compensation and indemnity measures to be carried out by the Renova Foundation. We argue that the formulation of claims and their statement vis-à-vis the competent institutions that are supposed to receive and respond to them depends on assumptions concerning two dimensions: symbolic-cognitive and socio-institutional. Both are largely absent in affected communities, particularly those at the mouth of the river. Therefore, we argue, the management of the socio-environmental disaster caused by the Fundão dam burst rupture presents a peculiar form difficulty: a mismatch of interests between affected communities and institutions responsible for managing it. Diagnosed difficulties may be common to other major disaster contexts. These difficulties, here diagnosed, may also be common to other major disaster contexts.

Keywords : Rio Doce; Disaster; Participation; Renova Foundation; Affected Communities.

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