Novas narrativas: o plano de manejo de rejeito pela cartografia social em Barra Longa/MG

Abstract

The socio-environmental degradation resulted of the mining activity expands itself throughout the territories of the Rio Doce basin following the rupture of the Fundão Tailings Dam, in the municipality of Mariana / MG. Such crime-disaster caused the accumulation of tailings from iron mining along the river channels, as well as changes in the environment, water quality and the local population. On the rivers Gualaxo do Norte and do Carmo located in the municipality of Barra Longa / MG the tailings impacted the spaces previously destined for plantations and the public living spaces in both urban and rural spaces. For decisions on the management of this tailings, the Tailings Management Plan (TMP) was prepared, however, this document does not present any proposal in which the affected people, users of the impacted area, make decisions about what will be done. Therefore, rises the interest in studying the impacts regarding the non-participation of the affected people in the interventions that involve the management of tailings in the municipality of Barra Longa / MG, identified in sections 9 and 10 in the TMP. Thus, using the participatory methodology of social cartography in three different locations (Barreto, downtown Barra Longa and São Gonçalo) it was possible to identify non incorporated elements in the TMP, however, of paramount importance for the affected people, as well as their desires, fears and mores. In this sense, the reflections point to the importance of using participatory methodologies to better understand the territory, also being possible to point out damages that are beyond the socioeconomic and socio-spatial fields, but that happen expressly in the symbolic and immaterial field.