Development and environmental conflicts in Brazil

Challenges for Anthropology and Anthropologists

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2494366
AutoresAndréa Z Zhouri (0000-0003-4459-4018, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, autor correspondente), Andréa Zhouri (0009-0000-8127-5628), Raquel Oliveira (0000-0003-1191-4695)
Ano2012
Volume9
Fascículo1
Páginas181-208
Data de publicação2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
EditoraFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s1809-43412012000100007
OpenAlexW2064666646
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412012000100007
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas17

In the last three decades, since the democratization of the country and the rise of environmental concerns, Brazil has created a regulatory framework capable of dealing with the environmental impact of its core developmental policies. An environmental governance package has been constructed, with the environmental licensing process as its major instrument. However, this process is based on an urban planning perspective with little assessment of specific local ecological conditions and social organizations. Indeed, the process of globalization has resulted in an intensive exploitation of natural resources, which increases the use of marginal economic areas and the expansion of the economic frontiers into territories occupied by family agriculture, traditional peoples and ethnic minorities. Hence, we see the creation of conflict zones involving locals, state sectors and entrepreneurial groups. Increasingly, within this context, anthropologists have been required to act as experts and mediators by different groups, including state institutions, private companies, and social movements. Based on ethnographic research about the environmental licensing processes of hydroelectric dams in Brazil, this paper focuses on the limits of anthropological knowledge, the contexts of its production and the role of anthropologists in political processes involving unequal networks of power

Context (archaeology · Corporate governance · Democracy · Democratization · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental governance · Environmental sociology · Geography · Globalization · Hydroelectricity · Natural resource · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Ecology