The technification model of the state civil defense policy in Santa Catarina: the path of the JICA project and environmental disasters in the Itajaí valley

Abstract

This article deals with the analysis of the technology model adopted by the Civil Defense of Santa Catarina. It is a proposal that stems from the National Policy for Civil Defense and Protection in 2012 changes perception, where the technoscientific discourse is inserted as a central matrix of national policy. The problem that arises is the purpose of this proposal, the changes it brings, and its consequences. To propose this reflection, the path that followed was the realization of a case study with scope in the thinking the sociology of disasters. The selected case was the JICA Project, which has a relevant role in the civil defense organization of Santa Catarina. The JICA study reveals significant clues about the meaning that a PNPDC may be acquiring, as it is an experience of national reference. For the study, a theoretical and bibliographic review of the emergency context of the JICA Project was carried out, the process of its implementation, and the role that this process had in the development of the state civil defense policy. It was also identified that it sought to analyze the conformation of the political debate in a technical debate, in addition to documentary data confrontation, such as the Pluriannual Plan, the Preparatory Study for the Project for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation in the Itajaí River Basin, and reports of great dissemination in 2015, to raise the important impacts of this change. The study points out that the marker "protection" as a guiding concept of civil defense policy covers a set of interests in dispute in political power, where business sectors have an advantage in assuming the technoscientific discourse as a precise tool for confrontation. As a result, his interests are generalized as the general interest of the affected population, concentrating political power. This process raised several consequences, the cruelest being the usage of disasters victims suffering.