Convivência contínua com esgotos a céu aberto: modos de subjetivação de habitantes de Parintins-Amazonas

Abstract

In Parintins city in Amazon State in function the precarious service in its sanitary sewage there is a large volume of served water on the streets and then it has been thrown by the people through sewer system without any treatment and this situation causes impact on a negative way in the life quality about its population. The apparent tolerance in the population’s convivence to open sewer was the starting this study to analyze the selves subjectivities about resident people who belong to three districts in which there was occurrence of open sewer on their respective streets. The study was developed from the multimethod strategies that included a documental study about urban formation habits history, the local physical description and semi structured interviews like other associated techniques revealed a complex environmental social picture. In the historical process, the social medicine was an important factor used like a biopolitical strategy to understand the social hygiene action of this society in name of the modernity and the consequent influence in the constitution of ways about people’s selves subjectivities. The olfactive revolution of the XVIII century contributed to understand the odours that were redefinited along the time and with this revolution the tolerance limit kept joyned themselves. The concept about dirty/cleaning were redefined in the space and in the time too, which contributed to detect the problems about how the people who live in these three districts get dealing to water problem that is served on the streets and the given distancement wish about of what is considered dirty that constitute spacial sociable elements. The data reveal the answers about many interviewed people when they said that use open sewer on the streets is a many people’s local habit that is difficult to get changed it, which is accepted by the other people on a passive way and this tolerance is justified by the deplorable situation about open sewer in the city. In the many people’s covivence to open sewer for many year produced a phenomenon of tolerance and passivity apparent in front of household sanitary increasing. This apparent permission convivence about open sewer use tend to raise to power the environment unsustainability problem in function of continuous growing of served water without any treatment whatever be this consume from the streets or from the rivers which are around the city. It assumes itself in this study that even had been used new strategies that intended to hygiene new habits for the people who live in Parintins, realized itself that this behaving come from the beginning of XX century and some postures have been estimated by the precept of modernity like an antihygienical precept and it continues for today, above of all the behaving of throwing water on the streets. This kind of behaving allowed us consider that it treat itself of a sovereignty act of these people, their selves subjectivities in face of the civilization investing which results in an incomplete modernity.