Indigenous movements and mobilization networks: the case of Belo Monte Hydropower Plant in Brazil
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 p...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | Ecuador |
| Institución: | Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales |
| Repositorio: | Revista EUTOPIA |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec:article/2857 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/eutopia/article/view/2857 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Amazonía Amazônia Redes de movilización Movimento Indígena movimiento indígena Usina Hidrelétrica de Belo Monte Usina Hidroeléctrica de Belo Monte |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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