Name: Arthur Augusto Silva Santos
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 05/07/2023
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Sandro Jose da Silva | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Cauê Fraga Machado | External Examiner * |
| Osvaldo Martins de Oliveira | Internal Examiner * |
| Sandro Jose da Silva | Advisor * |
Summary: This Social Science dissertation explores the incorporation of traditional peoples and communities affected by the Samarco/Vale/BHP disaster into the established reparation system. The research uses participant observation in the Technical Chamber of Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Communities (CTIPCT) and adopts the methodology of "document ethnography" to analyze the field material. Traditional communities have different forms of association and seek to assert their ethnic identity to ensure adequate compensation. However, recognition of this identity is often denied by the entities responsible for repairs. In this way, some groups managed to advance in recognition, while others did not. Ethnic affirmation emerges as a tool to bring visibility to communities and ensure a reparation process consistent with their way of life. The dissertation investigates the strategies developed to repair those affected by the disaster and highlights the fragility of the mining companies` social responsibility. The text presents the historical scenario that allowed the disaster to occur, the regions structured by the disaster field and the established repair agreementsand structures. It also explores the concept of traditional peoples and communities and the formation of the CTIPCT. The dissertation aims to elucidate the events that occurred in the seven years of the disaster, including the reparation of traditional peoples and communities, their struggle for recognition and inclusion in the reparation programs destined for them. The research demonstrates the tensions and unresolved issues related to ethnic affirmation as a reparation strategy and highlights the difficulties faced by those affected to obtain justice in the face of powerful corporations and the justice system that protects them.
Keywords: Brazil; Espírito Santo (state); environmental disaster in the Doce River; Samarco; indigenous peoples and traditional communities; reparation.
