Rupturas socioambientais de um desastre: da mineradora Samarco à comunidade ribeirinha de Maria Ortiz ( Colatina - ES)

Abstract

This research aims to unveil and understand the socioenvironmental ruptures caused by the disruption of the tailings dam of Fundão (MG), belonging to the Samarco S.A. Mining Company in the local dimension of the Maria Ortiz riverside community, in the city of Colatina-ES (Brazil). For this purpose, it directs the attention to the disaster itself, contextualizing it from the performance of the SAMARCO company in the scenario of expansion of primary extractive activities in the mining area in Brazil and in the world, experienced from the beginning of the XXI century, as well as it discusses the Modernity as a source of risks, and, consequently, of disasters. It also seeks to understand the disaster of SAMARCO as a result of a capitalist economic rationality that has as striking feature the rampant appropriation of natural resources despite their finitude. It also makes a critical approach to the paradigm of "sustainable development", its appropriation and use within a capitalist economic logic that transformed it into simply rhetorical discourse, incapable of promoting the ideal of sustainable development. Finally, it brings the voice of the fishermen of Maria Ortiz through their reports of life and demonstrates the social and environmental disruptions that this community suffered and still suffers due to the disaster, highlighting the impasses and intentionalities about the way of acting of SAMARCO/RENOVA Foundation which contributes to the disaster be experienced day after day by the fishermen.