After the Vale’s tailings dam failure in Brumadinho (Minas Gerais) in early 2019, a group of researchers and activists from around the world produced a thematic map in the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice (EJAtlas) including 30 cases of environmental conflicts in which Vale had a prominent role. In this paper, these cases are analysed in light of Vale’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) discourses and practices, aiming to explore the contradiction of high CSR standards in the company and in other large multinationals in the mining sector coexisting with many socio-environmental conflicts. The analysis indicates that the company’s performance contrasts with its CSR discourse and that, even when Vale considers its performance both responsible and exemplary, the company reproduces environmental injustices and is therefore rather practicing Corporate Social Irresponsibility.
Pandemia es toda aquella enfermedad que se extiende a lo largo de varios continentes o alrededor del mundo. La palabra pandemia encuentra sus raíces en el griego: el elemento pan hace referencia a la totalidad, mientras que dem alude al pueblo. El desglose de este término permite pensar las pandemias como flujos dinámicos y territoriales. La pandemia es también la metáfora idónea para entender el avance de patrones de poder que se afianzan con las narrativas de la modernidad, el capitalismo, el patriarcado y la colonialidad. Las pandemias cargan consigo tanto la definición como la metáfora. O al menos esa es una cualidad remarcable de las pandemias del VIH/sida y del COVID-19.
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