Challenging extractivism: Activism over the aftermath of the Fundão disaster

Lyra, Mariana Galvão

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2019.05.010

Cited by 14 publications

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“…Corroborating the studies of Lyra (2019) and Pastran and Mallett (2020), we verified a lack of government coordination in disaster repair, as well as the delegation of its responsibilities to the companies that caused it. This means that affected people were excluded from the process, even through traditional channels, leading them to oppose and confront it by means of justice institutions, which we may characterize as non-traditional participation.…”

Section: Debate Over Participation In Disaster Reliefmentioning

confidence: 55%

Mining disaster in the Doce River: Dilemma between governance and participation

Losekann

Milanez

2021

Current Sociology

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In this article, we assess how the demand for participation modified the governance structure initially proposed to deal with the reparation of impacts caused by the failure of the Fundão dam in Mariana (Minas Gerais, Brazil). Throughout the text, we identify how mining companies sought to build a solution based on a complex structure of governance with the consent of government agencies. We also verify that, in contrast, social movements pressured justice institutions for alternatives that guarantee some level of participation of the affected communities. As a result of this interaction, we argue that a hybrid system was created, which proved excessively slow, highly inefficient and unable to meet the main demands of the affected people.

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Section: Debate Over Participation In Disaster Reliefmentioning

confidence: 55%

Mining disaster in the Doce River: Dilemma between governance and participation

Losekann

Milanez

2021

Current Sociology

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“…The Fundão dam disaster has been extensively covered by Brazilian academia. Much of it has covered the (in)justice and legal aspects as well as the more social movement perspectives (see Lyra, 2019;Fontoura et al, 2019;Zhouri, 2015;Zhouri et al, 2018;Garcia and Fonseca 2018;Bortolon et al, 2021). Of particular relevance to this paper, Miranda et al (2017) focused on how the disaster led to de-territorialization, with hundreds of families losing their homes and settlements.…”

Section: Context Of Samarco Mining Corporation and Marianamentioning

confidence: 99%

Deliberating or Stalling for Justice? Dynamics of Corporate Remediation and Victim Resistance Through the Lens of Parentalism: The Fundão dam Collapse and the Renova Foundation in Brazil

Maher

2021

J Bus Ethics

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Using the political corporate social responsibility (PCSR) lens of parentalism, this paper investigates the more subtle and less-visible interactional dynamics and strategies of power, resistance and justification that manifest between a multi-stakeholder-governed foundation and victims of a mining corporation’s dam collapse. The Renova Foundation was established to provide remedy through a deliberative approach to hundreds of thousands of victims from Brazil’s worst socio-environmental disaster—the collapse of Samarco Mining Corporation’s Fundão tailings dam. Data were collected from a combination of fieldwork and archival analysis to assess the perceptions of victims, their defenders and foundation executives. The findings reveal 12 dialectical tensions from Renova’s attempts to remedy the victim’s injustices. The case analysis contributes through proposing a dialectical process model of stakeholder resistance and subversion to parentalist PCSR. The case reveals the pivotal use of time via the act of stalling as a strategic resource to exhaust victims and reach settlements. Furthermore, organizations justify their parentalism by blaming delays on the bureaucracy and shared responsibility of multi-stakeholder deliberation. Ultimately, I contend that victims must have an equal voice in the outcome of their remediation and that businesses responsible for causing harm should not decide these matters.

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“…Looking at the most recent literature on extractivism, it can be argued that this research is not inherently borne to consider or analyze existences, or other-than-human beings (such as animals). Instead, the focus of the following publications has been on extractivism as a contentious and conflictive economic/political action or phenomenon (e.g., Engels 2021), on global extractivist and logistical circuits and political economy (e.g., Arboleda 2020), on juxtaposing extractivism with human or citizen rights (e.g., Hougaard and Vélez-Torres 2020), or on social movements (e.g., Lyra 2019). A common thread is the recognition of sacrifice zones, ecological damage, and economic inequality in extractivism (e.g., Gomez-Pereira 2020; Healy et al 2019); yet, what is being destroyed is rarely discussed in detail or elaborated upon.…”

Section: Existences In the Extractivism Scholarshipmentioning

confidence: 99%