The Environmental Disasters of Mariana and Brumadinho and the Brazilian Social Environmental Law State

Armada, Charles Alexandre Souza

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“…Spectacular examples continue to appear as notorious cost cutting exercises of mega projects that insist on the most precarious of labour and lowering of safety standards have had devastating consequences. The Mariana dam collapse of 2014 that spread pollutants along 668 kilometres, killed 19 people (Fernandes et al 2016) while the 2019 Brumadinho dam disaster claimed at least 270 lives in January 2019 (Armada & Souza 2019).…”

Section: Capitalism Naked and Rawmentioning

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Extending the conceptualisation of class across field and city: Transgressing servitude towards an emancipatory praxis

Thomaz

Garvey

2022

Capital & Class

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This article advocates the transgression of incumbent theoretical divisions between rural and urban abodes of production and draws on new analyses of contemporary spaces of capital and labour antagonisms in Brazil. It does so to articulate a broadening of the definition of class and class struggle towards an emancipatory praxis that does not necessarily prioritise industrialised workers. The study has a particular focus on the reconfiguration of socio-spatial arrangements linked to 21st century commodity cultivation, extraction and trade and subsequent class tensions on the material and epistemological frontier between (hydro, agro and mineral) mega projects and the autonomous territories of rural subjects. The renewed degradation of conditions for a labour force that has always been precarious, the dissolving dichotomy between proletarianised and peasant labour, and the ongoing resistance to corporate capture by communities is evoked to contrast distinct metabolic relations within rural territories with the objectification of labour and nature under capitalism. The analysis reveals new configurations of class domination, tension and counter movements. Many critical scholars, particularly those in the Global South, have been attentive to alternate readings of the world by indigenous, African descendent, peasant and agro-extractivist communities that may be unfamiliar yet underpin vociferous, and often fatal, resistance to capital accumulation. The task to effectively situate these struggles within a theory of broader, heterogeneous class struggle and integrate this ‘wealth’ of collective struggle and knowledge towards societal transformation remains important work in progress. In this spirit, the paper offers some possibilities for making new conceptual and material connections between rural and urban productive spaces and across currently fragmented class formations and identities.

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Section: Capitalism Naked and Rawmentioning

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Extending the conceptualisation of class across field and city: Transgressing servitude towards an emancipatory praxis

Thomaz

Garvey

2022

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“…This has prioritised mining and weaken environmental industry and regulating agencies. Between the accidents of Fundão (2015) and Brumadinho (2019), instead of changing the political framework to provide effective safety to populations around mining areas, what happened was the flexibilization of some legal provisions, such as reduction of licensing steps (Armada 2019). Lead mainly by the public sector, environmental protection is allocated scarce financial resources or is ill-distributed among the existing bodies.…”

Section: Environmental Governance In Brazilmentioning

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Doce River Large-Scale Environmental Catastrophe: Decision and Policy-Making Outcomes

Lima

Bastos

Teubner

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Environment and Development

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“…In the New World, Brazil is among the areas of high diversity and endemism in Cyperus with several new species recently published, mainly from aquatic environments [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. In Brazil, the aquatic ecosystems suffer severe degradation because of activities such as illegal logging, mining, ranching, and agriculture [34][35][36][37], which reduce vegetation cover, decrease rainfall, increase evaporation and incidence of drought, and thus trigger decline in populations or even extinction of species not yet discovered [36][37][38][39][40].…”

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Cyperus prophyllatus: An endangered aquatic new species of Cyperus L. (Cyperaceae) with a exceptional spikelet disarticulation pattern among about 950 species, including molecular phylogenetic, anatomical and (micro)morphological data

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Cyperus prophyllatus, an endangered new species of Cyperus (Cyperaceae) from an aquatic ecosystem of the Atlantic Forest, Espírito Santo State, southeastern Brazil, is described and illustrated. The spikelet morphology of Cyperus prophyllatus is unique among the c. 950 species of Cyperus in having both a conspicuous spikelet prophyll and a corky rachilla articulation, which remain persistent at the base of the spikelet after disarticulation. Our molecular phylogenetic data support the placement of C. prophyllatus in the C3 Cyperus Grade and more precisely in the clade representing Cyperus sect. Oxycaryum, which also includes C. blepharoleptos and C. gardneri. Anatomical and (micro)morphological analyses corroborate the phylogenetic results, provide a better understanding of ecology and taxonomy, as well as reveal compatibility of structures with survival and dispersion in aquatic environments. A distribution map, table with distinctive characters of allied species, and conservation status are made available.

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The Environmental Disasters of Mariana and Brumadinho and the Brazilian Social Environmental Law State

Cited by 8 publications

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Extending the conceptualisation of class across field and city: Transgressing servitude towards an emancipatory praxis

Extending the conceptualisation of class across field and city: Transgressing servitude towards an emancipatory praxis

Doce River Large-Scale Environmental Catastrophe: Decision and Policy-Making Outcomes

Cyperus prophyllatus: An endangered aquatic new species of Cyperus L. (Cyperaceae) with a exceptional spikelet disarticulation pattern among about 950 species, including molecular phylogenetic, anatomical and (micro)morphological data

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