Contested Knowledges in the Environmental Conflict Over Uranium and Phosphate Mining in Ceará - Brazil

Bibliographic Data

ID2489112
AuthorsRaquel Maria Rigotto (0000-0002-7460-3221, Universidade Federal do Ceará, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume14
Issue2
Publication date2017-12-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-43412017v14n2p184
OpenAlexW2772021428
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412017000200401
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

This article analyses aspects of knowledge production in situations of environmental conflicts. It focuses on the context of the environmental field established by the announcement of the uranium and phosphate mining project in the Sertão Central (Central Hinterland) of Ceará - Brazil. The aim is to describe several modus faciendi - ways of acting - that update and territorialize epistemicide and cognitive injustices in the context of neo-extractivism. It also intends to describe processes of knowledge construction put in motion by subjects who were affected, in order to defend themselves from threats to their territories and ways of life. The study also addresses interfaces of this process with the participation of researchers/advisors who, from the perspective of a science oriented by activism, engage in dialogue with local subjects for a shared production of knowledge

Archaeology · Business · Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Environmental planning · Field (mathematics · Geography · Knowledge management · Knowledge production · Order (exchange · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Process (computing · Sociology · Uranium · Uranium mining · Computer Science · Environmental and Social Impact Assessments · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Mining and Resource Management

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