Desenvolvimentistas e ambientalistas: a questão da silvicultura na região sul do Rio Grande do Sul sob a ótica da teoria do discurso.

Abstract

One way to get an understanding of positions and arguments that support social groups in their inter-relationships is to analyze its central thesis and how they are approaching. This approach means that ideas of these groups come to occupy positions around proposals that are common to them. Although, in most cases these groups seek different goals, and even contrary, for certain time periods and in certain social situations, the means to achieve these goals may be the same for all. The issue which involves the establishment of the production cycle of pulp, mainly in the cities of Pelotas, Arroio Grande and Herval, this combination of interests that become, in some points, has gained common emphasis in the beginning of this century. To allow a more accurate analysis of this situation, this dissertation work is the use of discourse theory, developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. This theory is an interesting way to analyze and to understand the formation of groups that arise to the contrary and favorable growing of eucalyptus ssp., Permitting an interpretation of the reasons of their goals in this competition for hegemony.