As associações da Associação: um estudo sobre catadores (as) de materiais recicláveis em Sant’Ana do Livramento/RS.

Abstract

Throughout history, global social, economic and political changes have altered the interaction between humanity and garbage in different societies and shifted the problem of waste to different areas of scientific knowledge and public policies, including in Brazil. Thus, based on this research, I seek to answer the following question: "How are the interdependence networks of recyclable material collectors configured in the Novo Horizonte Association (ACNH) in Sant'Ana do Livramento / RS?". Through this study the general objective is to analyze both the interdependence relationships between the collectors and the configurational elements that make up the ACNH network in Sant'Ana do Livramento / RS. Based on the general objective, I elaborate the specific objectives that I develop from this research: 1) Discuss sociological aspects related to the sociogenesis of recyclable material collectors throughout history; 2) Understand how the process of organizing the productive organization of recyclable material collectors in Sant'Ana do Livramento occurred from the national and municipal socio-historical context; 3) Analyze the configurations of the social relations networks of the Novo Horizonte Waste Pickers Association located in Sant’Ana do Livramento / RS. As a hypothesis, I present that the relationships between the associated waste pickers and the external social actors constitute networks as a form of daily resistance used by the ACNH aiming to configure the struggle for recognition through the PNRS with socioeconomic inclusion of waste pickers organized productively and collectively. As a theoretical framework in the research, Norbert Elias' procedural and relational perspectives will be analyzed, since their inter-relationship allows exploring the socio-historical dynamics of the configurations and constitutions of networks between recyclable waste pickers and other social actors who permeate the category's productive organization in Brazil. Likewise, in the proposed discussion, the struggle for recognition and daily resistance are contained in the configuration of the productive organization of the collectors of the ACNH. In this way, these two concepts will be activated throughout the work as follows: the struggle for recognition and redistribution under the perspective of Nancy Fraser analyzing the National Solid Waste Policy (PNRS). The daily resistance will assist in the analysis of the configuration of public and hidden discourses, in the conception of James Scott (2013), of the associated pickers as a form of subsistence in the face of injustices and direct domination developed by actors and institutions. The methodology of this study has a qualitative approach anchored in the use of three data collection procedures: participant observation, semi-structured interviews and documentary research. Thus, based on this study, I consider that the associations of the productive organization of the pickers configure of interdependent relationships networks, mobilizing actors and actions as a way to resist the structures that permeate the current capitalist system. In the same way, it was possible to understand both the dynamics of consolidation of the productive and collective organization of waste pickers, as well as the configuration of the debate that involves solid waste from the performance of an association of waste pickers in the investigative context. , that is, in Sant'Ana do Livramento. From this analysis it was possible to analyze the formation of networks between actors aiming at the socioeconomic inclusion through National Solid Waste Policy (PNRS) of the collectors as well as the forms of associations / relationships between the associated members in a way that mobilizes the associative belonging and the dynamics of work.