Coloniality of power and social control strategies in mining: an analysis of MAM activists' narratives.
Brazil has experienced the expansion of mining in recent years, guided mainly by the neoextractive model. This exploitation model has been imposed by a hegemonic discourse that considers mining as a need for the development of periphery countries. But cases such as the failure of the dams in Mariana...
| Published in: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 300 - 320 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2023
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