Os ventos que sopram na Serra do Inácio – Piauí: quando os invisíveis têm direitos?

Abstract

This work developed empirical research, with a participatory and interdisciplinary orientation, based on the theoretical framework of critical thinking on human rights and decolonial theories, and aimed at systematizing a countercolonialist action to be articulated by the Public Defenders' Offices. It started from a case study, after serving the population of Serra do Inácio - Piauí, which was deeply affected by the installation of wind farms from 2016 onwards. The study demonstrated that the State's incentive to install wind energy plants disregarded their impacts harmful effects, including the silencing of the local population. The qualitative research showed that entire families lived without personal documents, without access to public policies or any social support. It revealed that residents, who already lived in a vulnerable situation, were made invisible by colonialist practices that encouraged capital. The existence of normative texts guaranteeing rights was insufficient to overcome social inequality accentuated by political decisions adopted in the region. The proposal of this research focuses on the invisibility of people considered subaltern by the very structure of the State and the institutional organization that supports the coloniality of power in its conduct, legitimizing economic dynamics of the Southeast-South axis, where the large industrial centers were strengthened and consolidated. of the country, to the detriment of other macro-regions, which were relegated to the periphery of the system. The intervention research method, which uses participatory qualitative research as a framework, was able to define its action plan between the production of knowledge and the transformation of reality. This participatory methodological approach allowed the moment of intervention to also serve theoretical production, including the institution itself (Public Defender's Office) in the analysis. The approach was restricted to services provided to residents of municipalities located on the Piauí side of Serra do Inácio, Curral Novo do Piauí and Betânia do Piauí, between the years 2019 and 2022. Information and images published in media outlets and by documentaries. The development of the dissertation pursued the objective of systematizing a countercolonialist action that could truly comply with the provisions of the Federal Constitution of 1988, which designed in its art.134 an institution with the mission of promoting human rights. This institution, umbilically related to the democratic regime, is the Public Defender's Office. The study was also guided by the understandings of Professor José Geraldo de Sousa Júnior and the reflections of the collection O Direito Found na Rua, coordinated by him, which brings critical studies that think of Law as emancipation and understands it as the creation of the social, defending pluralism legal status and the condition of insurgency. After systematizing the practices adopted in monitoring the Serra do Inácio cases, the work analyzed 03 axes of action that marked a manifestly counter-colonialist stance of the Public Defender's Office, with emancipatory purposes for the public served