A USINA HIDRELÉTRICA DE ITÁ, BRASIL E A TECNOLOGIA DE FORÇA BRUTA NA HISTÓRIA RECENTE DO RIO URUGUAI

2018; Universidad de Los Lagos; Volume: 5; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

0719-4706

Autores

Klanovicz, Melody Forcelini,

Tópico(s)

Environmental Sustainability and Education

Resumo

We discuss the construction of the Ita Hydroelectric Power Plant, Brazil, based on the political implications of the use of brute force technologies, and their role in altering local landscapes. We understand this power plant as a vector for reading historic relations between technology and politics in Brazil, since the period of state with a determining role in development to a neoliberal regulatory state, which privatized the generation and distribution of energy in the late 1990s. In order to work with this theme, we use documentary support produced during the construction and start-up period of the plant's activities, comparing them with other sources, of official, state and private origin.

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