O Comitê para Integração da Bacia Hidrográfica do Rio Paraíba do Sul - CEIVAP: um campo sócio-político-ambiental em disputa

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the struggles and asymmetries of power forged in the Paraiba do Sul Hydrographic basin, in particular those related to the actions of the Comitê para Integração da Bacia Hidrográfica do Rio Paraíba do Sul CEIVAP, and to investigate this committee s ability to produce a new body of knowledge capable of strengthening citizenship, emancipation and participatory decision making in a counter-hegemonic globalization context. CEIVAP was chosen as the object for this empirical study because in its sphere different social actors with asymmetrical power and diverse worldviews wage a real politico-ideological struggle. These tensions in modern society s complex dynamics of power can set in motion new local and global networks with institutional arrangements where different agencies from the government and the civil society can found a new social order based on emancipatory and sustainable ideas and practices.