A qualitative analysis on implementing the sewer system for an indigenous village in the influence area of Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant (Brazil)

In this article, the project and implementation of the sewer system in the Paquiçamba Village, as a condition for environmental licensing, was investigated. This village is surrounded by the influence of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant (Brazil). This research aimed to characterize the context of ethnodevelopment, thus recognizing the social participation of the indigenous people. The research within a qualitative approach between 2009 and 2018 was based on primary data sources (through structured interviews) and secondary data (electronic files related to the environmental licensing). Data were analysed according to descriptive, focused and selective observations until reaching theoretical saturation. The organization of the data was followed by the organization of the themes, which formed a spiral of interconnected activities based on Creswell's proposal (2014). It was detected that indigenous involvement occurred at some moments in the elaboration of the sewage system project. The maintenance of ancestral habits in the disposal of excreta by a portion of the indigenous people, even with the sewage system in place, makes it essential to broaden the debate on the projects proposed on the environmental licensing processes. The Indigenous can not only have a consultative role, but assume a deliberative participation, being protagonists in conducting their own development.

Afinal, isso é antropologia? Uma autoetnografia de experiências (entre o mercado e o público) em antropologia audiovisual aplicada

O artigo é fruto da dissertação de mestrado Ambientalização, Audiovisual e Desenvolvimento: percursos etnobiográficos (2015), uma autoetnografia sobre os percursos de uma cientista social em uma nova inserção profissional que surge de processos de ambientalização: a consultoria para licenciamento ambiental de grandes empreendimentos energéticos. Essas vivências carregam uma especificidade: o uso do audiovisual como instrumento de pesquisa e de participação pública.Palavras-chave: Autoetnografia. Meio ambiente. Antropologia audiovisual. Participação. After all, is that anthropology? An autoethnography of experiences (between the market and the public) in applied audiovisual anthropologyAbstract: This article is the result of the master's thesis Environmentalization, Audiovisual and Development: ethnobiographical paths (2015), an autoetnography about the routes of a social scientist in a new professional environment that originates from environmentalization processes: the consultancy for the environmental licensing of major energy enterprises. . These experiences bear specificity: the use of the audiovisual as an instrument of research and social participation.Keywords: Autoetnography. Environment. Audiovisual Anthropology. Participation.

Bioethical Implications and Major Infrastructure Works

Brazilian oil refineries’ environmental licensing process has been criticized for lack of healthcare aspects. Therefore, this paper aims to identify elements of bioethics that contribute to healthcare in this process. Based on an integrative review of scientific literature and on the deconstructive method proposed by Derrida, the relevance and legitimacy of bioethics to justify the relationship between morality and the consequences for individuals’, populations’, and ecosystems’ health is justified. We conclude that bioethics may contribute as a theoretical and practical tool to solve conflicts by describing existing struggles and moral dilemmas, through processes of criticism and justification and the establishment of morally acceptable measures for the protection of humans and environmental health.