Uma análise da agroindústria canavieira em “tempos de sustentabilidade”

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Fonseca, Lucas Menezes
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Alagoas; Brasil; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia; UFAL
• Palavras-chave em Português: Agroindústria canavieira; Sustentabilidade; Impactos socioambientais; Sugar cane agro-industry; Sustainability; Social-environmental impacts; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/3566

This work has as objective to do an analysis of the sugar cane agro-industry before the existence of a new expansive cycle in the sector, encompassing the transformations that occurred and the ones that are in course. We identify the open market expectations for the formation of an ethanol (alcohol) market as the propelling element of this cycle. This fuel, classified as “green” and “clean”, is presented in position of attending the expectation of sustainable development which becomes being defined as model by the market and by the managerial means. Therefore, the sugar cane agro-industry turns into a target to the international capital and becomes promoted by the State, that is fundamental to the conjoint of transformations occurred in the sector, as to the technical changes as to the management alterations. Discussions about sustainability and social responsibility were absorbed into companies, and the market, effected by society's pressures on account of the consequences of the capitalism. Therefore, it's being generated a new habitus of the dominant classes which change their actions considering social and environmental dimensions of their enterprises, allowing a symbolic appropriation of these discussions without bringing changes to the political-economical order foundations. In this historic context, the sugar cane agro-industry, historically marked by its negative social-environmental impacts, tries to revert its position to present itself as a provider of “good practices” supported by the alliance between the State, factories and civil society's organizations. However, our research identifies that the socialenvironmental impacts continue present and remain having relation as with the transformations occurred in the society's conjoint, as with the foundations of its activities of monoculture and agricultural estate.