Rosangela Werlang

Refugiados del desarrollo: la naturalización del sufrimiento de las poblaciones afectadas por las centrales hidroeléctricas

This paper deals with the building of hydroelectric plants in the country in its relationship with the social and environmental damage, but also with the human costs derived of this process. Then, the construction of these projects has led whole population to give up their ways of life, their culture and their technique on the name of development. In addition, it seeks to reflect on the positive speech to the construction of hydropower as a hope speech that, in its genesis, objective naturalizing the suffering of the affected populations and winning body when its linkage to economic compensation.

Da violência contra si: a autodestruição por meio do suicídio no meio rural no Rio Grande do Sul/Brasil

Este texto trata da questao do suicidio no Rio Grande do Sul/Brasil, considerando o contexto do avanco do capitalismo no campo. Este avanco tem propiciado novos modos e estilos de vida que, por seu turno, tem favorecido a algumas sociopatologias, dentre estas, a autodestruicao por meio do suicidio. Das violencias a que estamos expostos todos os dias, a violencia contra si e uma das mais graves, vez que denuncia a sociedade deleteria em que se vive, assim como seus pontos de desagregacao. Neste sentido, aponta a investida do capital para que se consolide o fim da pequena agricultura tradicional, seja por meio da articulacao com a industria e seus metodos perversos de gestao, seja por meio da pluriatividade, expressao contemporânea da flexibilizacao e, ademais, da precarizacao do trabalho no meio rural. This paper deals with the issue of suicide in Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil, considering the advance of capitalism in rural areas. This kind of progress has brought new lifestyles that, in turn, has favored some social pathologies and, among these, the self-destruction through suicide. Among violences that we are exposed every day, the violence against ourselves is one of the most serious, since it reveals the deleterious society in which we live, as well as their point of breakdown. In this regard, the capital has invested to consolidate the end of the family farming, either through cooperation with the industry and its perverse management methods and through pluriactivity, contemporary expression of flexibility and, moreover, of precariousness of work in rural areas.