“Domesticação dos ventos”: um estudo sobre os processos de implantação e operação do empreendimento eólico na comunidade Curral de Varas, Guanambi/Bahia

Abstract

This thesis aims at knowing how the processes of implantation and operation of the wind power project by the company Renova Energia Inc. occurred during the period of time between 2007 and 2014, in Curral de Varas, Guanambi, Bahia, Brazil, a region that is part of a large wind power complex in Latin America. This thesis also aims at knowing what the perceptions of peasants in that community are. The methodological design consists of a qualitative case study research as well as memory and documentary studies. As instruments of data collection, it was used participant observation, interviews and photographic records, which served to access the subjective universe of social subjects. Field trips were made between 2016 and 2018 in order to outline the local context, to know the peculiarities of its inhabitants and the social, environmental, economic impacts caused by the aforementioned company, as well as the counterparts presented by it to compensate them. It was noticed in this research how impactful was the exploration of this energetic enterprise for nature and the peasant modus vivendi. Such impacts had, and still have, repercussions on fauna, flora, land structure etc., insofar as they invert the right to use the land, cause a reconfiguration in/of the landscape and a breakdown of logics of reciprocity, to the point of causing breakdowns in territory and forms of life in the peasant universe. Finally, it became evident that there was no synergy between the State, the company and the peasants, that could be capable of establishing dialogue and participation of those social subjects in all phases of the wind power company, given the predominance of exogenous and inflexible actions by the State and the company, typical of government policies of a tutelary and imposing nature, in the wake of development processes in line with Brazil's attempt to become a global player in the renewable energy market.