Conflitos ambientais: uma análise das perspectivas teórico-metodológicas que orientam a produção acadêmica brasileira no período de 1992 a 2012.

Abstract

This dissertation intends to look for the theoretical and methodological perspectives that are informing sociological analyzes of the Brazilian bibliographic production about environmental conflicts in the period 1992-2012, to trace the possible directions of the Brazilian sociological thought on the environmental conflicts. This is because there is a shortage of a wide and deep balance of the scientific production of the subject, because scientific studies which systematize the production of conflicts, and also the main theoretical and methodological perspectives that lead it are not enough. Due to the extent of bibliographic material, the study only deals with the examination of the intrinsic theoretical and methodological perspective that orientates this production. An analysis of the approaches related to studies of society and thought, and society and science is done. An analysis of social conflicts and the consequent process of "environmentalization" is also done. In this research, a qualitative methodology of the Brazilian bibliographic production, with exploratory and analytical characteristics, is developed. The dimension of the field in a survey of this nature would refer to the public documents relating to the scientific literature on environmental conflicts. To obtain the data is used the database of articles published in the proceedings of the events of the Meeting of the Associação Nacional de Pós- Graduação e Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais (ANPOCS); Sociedade Brasileira de Sociologia (SBS); and the Associação Nacional de Pós- Graduação e Pesquisa em Ambiente e Sociedade (ANPPAS). Scientific work on environmental conflicts, from these events, are collected, between the period 1992 to 2012. After the collection of data that are used in these works listing the main theoretical and methodological perspectives that guide the production of environmental conflicts is accomplished. This study shows that the main references in Brazil to inform the scientific literature about the environmental conflicts are rooted in the works of authors: Henri Acselrad; Andrea Zhouri; KlemensLaschefski; Doralice Barros Pereira; José Sergio Leite Lopes; Paul.ELitlle; Mario Fuks; Angela Alonso; Valeriano Costa and Barbanti Jr. The research points that the authors go close to a consensus perspective, in searching for a resolution of conflicts, or they go close to an explicit perspective of the conflict.