"Da lama ao caos" : intersecções entre a criminologia verde do sul e a justiça de transição no testemunho dos atingidos e atingidas pelo dano social estatal-corporativo em Brumandinho/MG

Abstract

The Córrego do Feijão dam collapse in Brumadinho/MG provided an unprecedented opportunity to systematically questioning the state-corporation power, as well as market interests in the production of massive social damage. The environmental victimization caused in the region resulted in 270 deaths, 7 missing persons, immeasurable and irreversible environmental impacts that affected human beings, non-human beings and the environment. For this reason, with the objective of understanding the glocal criminality of the powerful in the context of mining activities, especially through the testimony of those affected, the case of the Córrego do Feijão dam collapse in Brumadinho/MG was chosen for the present research. The choice of the theoretical framework of Southern Green Criminology allowed for a more attentive analysis of the complexities of the actions and omissions practiced by powerful actors in the context of mining territories, especially from decolonial studies and struggles against environmental racism, speciesism, patriarchy, and neoliberal rationality. In the same sense, transitional justice is an important field of study for green criminology, in the sense of bringing to light the truth, rescuing the memory of environmental victims, and combating the broad negationisms produced by powerful actors, empowering the dialogue spaces with the affected communities. For this reason, the central research problem that guides this work consists in knowing what is the perception of justice contained in the testimony of those affected by the dam collapse in Brumadinho/MG? For this purpose, an exploratory-bibliographical research was carried out, with methodological emphasis on field research, through qualitative semi-structured interviews, and data analysis carried out by Grounded Theory, through the free software WeftQDA. The results showed that the idea of justice for the victims is represented both by the need for legal intervention to ensure fair and efficient economic reparation, and also symbolic, of public recognition of the state, institutions, and corporation responsible for environmental victimization. The narratives reveal a feeling of social injustice, due to the lack of publicization of the truth, especially from those who lived through the traumatic period of the dam failure.