Social movements against large mining companies in Brazil

Abstract

Based on a survey of primary data, this paper aims to analyze and analyze some strategies and counter strategies of social movements that deal with the extraction of ores in Brazil, in order to verify the formation and development of conflicts arising from social and environmental impactsand human rights violations caused by large mining companies in the country. To do so, the problem was first situated through an understanding of the way in which this activity is carried out, so that the attention is then directed to what is in dispute between the different agents that compose this field of tension, so that, in the end, it was possible to understand some strategies and counter strategies of these social movements, especially those related to the new mining regulatory framework, then elaborated by the Dilma Government, and to the provisional measures of the sector recently edited by the Temer Government. This led to the conclusion that the fronts of resistance, popular mobilization and political articulation lend themselves to deconstructing the “truths” disseminated by the big mining companies, showing how much they violate human rights, especially those who are in a historical and of vulnerability.