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Indigenous movements and mobilization networks: the case of Belo Monte Hydropower Plant in Brazil

Eutopía, Revista de Desarrollo Económico Territorial

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Title Indigenous movements and mobilization networks: the case of Belo Monte Hydropower Plant in Brazil
Movimientos indígenas y redes de movilización: el caso de la Usina Hidroeléctrica de Belo Monte en Brasil/ Indigenous movements and mobilization networks: the case of Belo Monte Hydropower Plant in Brazil
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Creator Fonseca, Lucas Milhomens
Gohn, Maria da Glória
 
Subject Comunicação, Sociologia
Amazônia, Movimento Indígena, Usina Hidrelétrica de Belo Monte
 
Description This study is a partial result of doctoral research developed at the Post-Graduate Studies Program in Education at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and in a broader scope has the main goal of analyzing social movements of the Brazilian Amazon region in the context of large infrastructure projects. In this article’s case we propose to understand how indigenous movements of this region organize through what we call “mobilization networks”. Throughout the text we problematize how these groups have widened their resistance processes against the large projects planned for the Amazon, especially the construction of hydropower plants. We also analyzed how these organizations utilized new communication tools such as the Internet and its media-digital resources. The locus of our study is the Belo Monte Hydropower Plant, located between the cities of Vitória do Xingú and Altamira, both in the state of Pará, where the biggest construction work developed by the Brazilian federal government in the last decade is located and which has been generating major environmental impact and social conflict.
El presente trabajo es resultado parcial de investigación de doctorado desarrollada en el Programa de Postgrado en Educación de la Universidad Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) y en un ámbito mayor tiene como objetivo central analizar los movimientos sociales de la Amazonia brasileña en el contexto de grandes proyectos infraestructurales. En el caso específico de este artículo nos proponemos comprender cómo los movimientos indígenas de esta región se organizan a través de lo que estamos llamando "redes de movilización". A lo largo del texto nos preguntamos cómo estos grupos ampliaron sus procesos de resistencia contra los grandes proyectos planeados para la Amazonia, en especial la construcción de centrales hidroeléctricas. También analizamos cómo estas organizaciones utilizan nuevas herramientas de comunicación como Internet y sus recursos mediático-digitales. El locus de nuestro estudio es la Usina Hidroeléctrica de Belo Monte, ubicada entre las ciudades de Vitória do Xingu y Altamira, ambas en el Estado de Pará (Brasil), donde está ubicada la mayor obra desarrollada por el Gobierno Federal brasileño en la última década y que viene generando enormes impactos socioambientales y conflictos sociales.
 
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This study is a partial result of doctoral research developed at the Post-Graduate Studies Program in Education at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and in a broader scope has the main goal of analyzing social movements of the Brazilian Amazon region in the context of large infrastructure projects. In this article’s case we propose to understand how indigenous movements of this region organize through what we call “mobilization networks”. Throughout the text we problematize how these groups have widened their resistance processes against the large projects planned for the Amazon, especially the construction of hydropower plants. We also analyzed how these organizations utilized new communication tools such as the Internet and its media-digital resources. The locus of our study is the Belo Monte Hydropower Plant, located between the cities of Vitória do Xingú and Altamira, both in the state of Pará, where the biggest construction work developed by the Brazilian federal government in the last decade is located and which has been generating major environmental impact and social conflict.
 
Publisher FLACSO - Ecuador
 
Date 2017-12-05
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
 
Format application/pdf
text/html
 
Identifier http://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/eutopia/article/view/2857
10.17141/eutopia.12.2017.2857
 
Source Eutopía, Revista de Desarrollo Económico Territorial; Núm. 12 (2017): Transformaciones territoriales en la Amazonía: indígenas, campesinos, fronteras y colonización (Diciembre-Mayo); 65-80
Eutopía, Revista de Desarrollo y Territorio; Núm. 12 (2017): Transformaciones territoriales en la Amazonía: indígenas, campesinos, fronteras y colonización (Diciembre-Mayo); 65-80
1390-5708
1390-5708
10.17141/eutopia.12.2017
 
Language spa
 
Relation http://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/eutopia/article/view/2857/2054
http://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/eutopia/article/view/2857/2056
 
Rights Derechos de autor 2017 Lucas Milhomens Fonseca
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0