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0017/2014 - Disasters, technicism and social suffering
Desastres: tecnicismo e sofrimento social

Author:

• Norma Felicidade Lopes Da Silva Valencio - Valencio, Norma Felicidade Lopes da Silva - São Carlos, , SP - Universidade Federal de São Carlos - Departamento de Sociologia - <normaf@terra.com.br>

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Abstract:

Using a critical perspective from Social Sciences, this study analyses some aspects of the technicist approach and discourse of the Brazilian Civil Defence in order to understand the usual indifference of its technical-operative body in front of the multidimensional social suffering of the groups affected on disasters. The analytical framework is based on documentary research, especially of official records, and also literature review of the main authors in the field as well as recent studies about the most emblematic recent disasters in Brazil. It is concluded that the concern about multidimensional social suffering of the social groups affected on disasters is absent in the institutional framework.

Keywords:

disasters; human rights; Civil Defence; Civil Defence; social suffering

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