AMBIENTES: Revista de Geografia e Ecologia Política
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description: AMBIENTES: Revista de Geografia e Ecologia Política tem origem na constituição da Rede de Pesquisadores em Geografia (Socio)Ambiental — RP-G(S)A —, composta por docentes de diversas instituições brasileiras de ensino superior. A partir de uma preocupação em valorizar os estudos de cunho ambiental, integrando conhecimentos sobre a natureza e a sociedade, a RP-G(S)A tem como foco a Geografia Ambiental, entendendo-se “ambiente” de maneira ampla: sem reduzir o conceito ao ambiente natural ou “meio ambiente”. Além disso, há um esforço para oferecer uma contribuição ao campo interdisciplinar da Ecologia Política. Sabendo da importância de um periódico científico para agregar reflexões, resultados de pesquisas e outros trabalhos a partir do enfoque da Geografia Ambiental, a proposta de criação de AMBIENTES: Revista de Geografia e Ecologia Política tem como objetivo fundamental incentivar a divulgação científica dessa importante área de pesquisa.
publisher: EDUNIOESTE (Editora da UNIOESTE)
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publication name: AMBIENTES: Revista de Geografia e Ecologia Política
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items: Towards a Geographical Theory of Justice: The Right to the Planet
items: Guarani Teko Porã versus Agribusiness Ma’etirõ: Fighting Necropolitics, Retaking Territories
items: The Struggle Against Necropolitical Rationality in the Amazon: Indigenous Peoples in Movement and Ancestral Territories
items: Necropolitical Zones in the Jungle: Commodity Flows, Logistic Infrastructures, and Spatial Justice in the Amazon
items: The River as a Border of Exclusion: Quilombola Territorialities and the Necropolitics of Climate Risk Management in Angra dos Reis (RJ), Brazil
items: Deaths of Despair in Irish Prisons and Beyond: A Necropolitical Analysis
items: Material Traces of Collective Mourning: Memorial Space-Making of Black Mother Activists in a Rio de Janeiro Favela
items: Nuclear Half-Lives, Necropolitical Afterlives: The Canadian Nuclear Industry, Western Militarism, and Indigenous Resistance at Chalk River
items: Necroecology: Environmental Death in the Age of Climate Collapse and Ecocidal Development
items: Planetary Necropolitics: Ecological and Social Challenges and Conflicts Across the World
items: Power first!
items: Geografia Ambiental: Quando o charme é atributo da ciência
items: “Foi só a gente se entender, que o SNUC passou no Congresso”
items: The vulnerability of the Panará indigenous people to contamination of surface waters
items: The socionature of waters on urban landscape: Reflections from cases in Juiz de Fora (MG)
items: Ambientalismos corporativos: Captura, instrumentalização e controle sócio-espacial
items: Cinza que te quero verde: As várias faces do “empresarialismo ecológico”
items: Nosso marco é ancestral: Direito à luta territorial e à preservação ambiental no Território Indígena de Taunay/Ipegue
items: Capitalism and the politics of resignation
items: Environmental Managerialism: A dimension of corporate environmentalization analyzed through ESG practices
items: Offshore wind energy and feminist political ecology in the global South: Research perspectives focused on small-scale women fishers
items: The agribusiness incursion in education: An analysis of the environmental discourse of the Associação Brasileira do Agronegócio (ABAG)
items: Corporate-state method in the mineral sector: Discourses and practices in the context of energy transition
items: Costa Rica in the international moral of decarbonization: Multi-scalar political interactions
items: The Law Found in the Pampa: The struggle against neoextractivist mining in a region of the Brazilian biome
items: Sérgio “Papagaio”: Um garimpeiro tradicional contra o mar de lama
items: REVISITANDO NOSSOS CLÁSSICOS: "Ecologia e Pensamento Revolucionário"
items: Markets socio-territorial construction: theoretical notes on the peasants protagonism potential in agroecological product markets
items: Geography and environmental concerns: A history of parallel efforts, wasted opportunities and competing narratives
items: Enxugando gelo

Towards a Geographical Theory of Justice: The Right to the Planet
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description: Abstract Geography ‘discovered’ the topic of social justice, in an explicit and profound way, at least more than half a century ago, with the publication of David Harvey’s Social Justice and the City. Of course, there were geographers who discussed in depth various aspects of social (in)justice long before that; we only need to think about anarchists Élisée Reclus and Piotr Kropotkin, but we could even go back further in time, remembering the social criticisms made by Alexander von Humboldt during his fieldwork in the Americas, particularly his criticism of slavery. Nevertheless, it is with Harvey’s famous book that a specifically geographical treatment of the theme of social justice takes shape directly, amidst a range of philosophical dialogues that extended from liberal authors to Marx. Since then, geographers have made significant contributions to our reflections on the spatial dimension of justice. The opposite is much less true: in the fields that have traditionally been devoted, for centuries and even millennia, to discussions on social justice – first and foremost political philosophy and law, followed by sociology and political science later, as well as other social sciences –, little attention has been paid to the real and potential contributions of geography and socio-spatial research in general. Even the growing appreciation of spatiality in the humanities and social sciences (the celebrated ‘spatial turn’) has not led to significant interest in geographers’ research and reflections. One of the central themes of this article is the concept of ‘necropolitics,’ introduced by Cameroonian intellectual Achille Mbembe. In its concrete expressions, necropolitics is very often an eco-necropolitics, which confronts us with the challenges of socio-ecological metabolism. To face ‘eco-necropolitics’ in all its multidimensional and multi-scalar complexity, it is essential to go beyond a purely ‘sectoral,’ non-spatial view. It is necessary to incorporate, deeply and d…
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: Marcelo Lopes de Souza
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 AMBIENTES: Revista de Geografia e Ecologia Política http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-06-23
publication date: 2026-06-23
doi: 10.48075/qmsf4g13

Guarani Teko Porã versus Agribusiness Ma’etirõ: Fighting Necropolitics, Retaking Territories
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description: Abstract This article examines how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed and intensified a regime of necropolitical spoliation of Guarani-Kaiowá body-territories in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. By articulating the dynamics of meatpacking plants (as hotspots of contagion) and the territorial expansion of soy agribusiness through illegal land leases, the study demonstrates a structural convergence between the State and the market that transforms indigenous territories into sacrifice zones. Introducing the Guarani concept of ma'etiro (malevolent smoke) as a cosmological critique of the soy-meat chain, the article argues that indigenous resistance, grounded in Teko Porã (good living), constitutes a crucial front against the necropolitical logic of capitalism in collapse. Key words: Brazil, Necropolitics, Body, Territory, Agribusiness. Teko porã Guarani versus ma’etirõ do agronegócio: Lutar contra a necropolítica, retomar territórios Resumo Este artigo analisa como a pandemia de COVID-19 expôs e intensificou um regime de espoliação necropolítica dos corpos-territórios Guarani-Kaiowá no Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. Articulando a dinâmica das indústrias frigoríficas (como focos de contágio) e a expansão territorial do agronegócio da soja por meio de arrendamentos ilegais, o estudo demonstra uma convergência estrutural entre Estado e mercado que transforma territórios indígenas em zonas de sacrifício. Introduzindo o conceito Guarani de ma'etiro (fumaça maléfica) como crítica cosmológica à cadeia soja-carne, o artigo argumenta que a resistência indígena, fundamentada no Teko Porã (bem viver), constitui uma frente crucial contra a lógica necropolítica do capitalismo em colapso. Palavras-chave: Brasil, Necropolítica, Corpo, Território, Agronegócio. Teko porã Guaraní versus ma’etirõ del agronegocio: Luchar contra la necropolítica, retomar territorios Resumen Este artículo analiza cómo la pandemia de COVID-19 expuso e intensificó un régimen de expoliación necropolítica de los cuerpos-terr…
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: Allan Rodrigo de Campos Silva
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 AMBIENTES: Revista de Geografia e Ecologia Política http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-06-23
publication date: 2026-06-23
doi: 10.48075/2erfsm47

The Struggle Against Necropolitical Rationality in the Amazon: Indigenous Peoples in Movement and Ancestral Territories
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description: Abstract The Amazon has historically been approached as a frontier to be conquered and exploited. The region has also been regarded as a “frontier of the world,” a space to be discovered or, from a colonial environmentalist perspective, a reserve of “wilderness” to be preserved untouched. From colonial times to the present, it has been configured as a stock-space of natural resources at the service of an exogenous logic of appropriation and domination, alien to its peoples. This article analyzes the ecopolitical and anticapitalist struggle of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon, considering how they rise up against a necropolitical rationality that stands in antagonism to diverse Indigenous matrices of rationality. To this end, I will relate Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics with what I have previously proposed as Amazonism: the imaginative geography produced by an external enunciator who conceives the region as homogeneous, exotic, and “distant” from this locus of enunciation. Such a perspective results in a spatial logic that transforms portions of nature into commodifiable assets; Amazonism, therefore, sustains necropolitical rationality in the Amazon. I present an overview of the struggle of Indigenous peoples in movement (Zibechi, 2024) in Brazil, outlining their forms of organization and the main threats to their territories. I focus on the example of the Borari people of Alter do Chão, in the municipality of Santarém (Pará), who resist land grabbing and real estate speculation, and who have recently undertaken the self-demarcation of their territory as an expression of struggle grounded in their Indigenous cosmology, which implies a cosmopolitics against necropolitics. In conclusion, I emphasize that the insurgent spatial practices of Indigenous peoples in movement in the Amazon reflect resistance to the geographical expansion of capital and point toward a proposition of existence in the face of planetary necropolitics. Keywords: Amazon; Indigenous Peopl…
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: Rafael Zilio
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 AMBIENTES: Revista de Geografia e Ecologia Política http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-06-23
publication date: 2026-06-23
doi: 10.48075/56qapy59

Necropolitical Zones in the Jungle: Commodity Flows, Logistic Infrastructures, and Spatial Justice in the Amazon
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description: Abstract This article examines how the planetary circulation of commodities produces new regimes of spatial injustice and disposability, focusing on the Amazonian port city of Barcarena, Brazil. Situating its analysis within critical urban studies, it introduces the concept of necropolitical zones - territories where exposure to death is not accidental but structurally organised through infrastructures, regulations, and economic imperatives. Drawing on Achille Mbembe’s notion of necropolitics, as well as frameworks from environmental humanities and logistics urbanism, the article traces the conceptual evolution of the “zone” from technological and critical to sacrifice and necropolitical forms. This genealogy reveals how global supply chains transform landscapes into operational infrastructures of extraction and exposure. Through a combined methodology of theoretical analysis and critical cartography, the study maps the spatial evolution of Barcarena over three decades, correlating industrial expansion, residential sprawl, and environmental degradation. Recurrent industrial accidents - chemical leaks, tailings spills, and toxic contamination - illustrate the systemic nature of risk and the institutionalised indifference that sustains extractivist urbanisation. The mapping approach highlights how these transformations materialise the logic of necropolitical planning, where economic imperatives outweigh the protection of life and environment. In its final section, the article explores how architecture and territorial practice can act as forms of ethical and political repair. By reinterpreting mapping as a tool of visibility and care, it proposes an architectural approach attentive to vulnerability, coexistence, and the relational ecologies of the Amazon. Ultimately, it argues for the recognition of Amazonian urban-diversity as a non-hierarchical framework for reimagining coexistence and spatial justice within the damaged landscapes of the Capitalocene. Keywords: Port …
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: Alexandre Gaiser-Fernandes
creator: Philippe Zourgane
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 AMBIENTES: Revista de Geografia e Ecologia Política http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-06-23
publication date: 2026-06-23
doi: 10.48075/5hxcjv60

The River as a Border of Exclusion: Quilombola Territorialities and the Necropolitics of Climate Risk Management in Angra dos Reis (RJ), Brazil
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description: Abstract As the climate issue is established as one of the most urgent ones to be faced globally, governments and corporations have increasingly invested efforts in strengthening their role and influence in the environmental arena. Under this context, the development of strategies and initiatives aimed at climate risk management in traditionally occupied territories has been shaped by a technical-scientific perspective on ecology, bringing to light the colonial power arrangements and the modern knowledge production regime that underpin the actions of the State and companies in racial capitalism. Given the need to listen to the voices that echo from the territories, this article discusses government and corporate interventions that claim to address climate change in Angra dos Reis (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), examining their consequences for the Quilombola community of Santa Rita do Bracuí. The analysis arises from the construction of a rock wall by a private company hired by the municipal government, in response to the floods that hit the neighborhood where the river is located in late 2023. Since then, the structure has prevented the Quilombolas from accessing the river that runs through their territory. However, the works were suspended by the courts months later, on charges of illegally diverting the river course without the proper environmental licensing or dialoguing with the community beforehand. For the purpose of demonstrating how necropower can be expressed through processes of signifying, diagnosing and controlling territories characterized as “risk areas”, ultimately legitimizing the selective management of life and death, this paper investigates the elaboration of the “risk” category in the Angra dos Reis Master Plan as a key element for the institutionalization of territorial subjection. Key-words: Risk management, Climate change, Traditional communities, Ecological coloniality. O rio como fronteira de exclusão: Territorialidades quilombolas e a necropolít…
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: João Gabriel M. M. Reis
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 AMBIENTES: Revista de Geografia e Ecologia Política http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-06-23
publication date: 2026-06-23
doi: 10.48075/dgj5sg27

Deaths of Despair in Irish Prisons and Beyond: A Necropolitical Analysis
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description: Abstract In the Republic of Ireland, the Prison Service is officially charged with ensuring the safety, security and dignity of the people who are imprisoned within its institutions and with creating an environment that facilitates rehabilitation. This article argues that this mission is substantively undermined by the necropolitical forces at work in and around Irish prisons. Written just as the Irish government plans to embark on the largest prison expansion project in the history of the state, our analysis is informed by an international literature that recognises the central role played by carceral institutions in both the expression and normalisation of state-sanctioned necropolitical violence. The article highlights the impoverished vision of “security” that is privileged within “build more prisons” discourses: the Irish government’s promised expansion of prison spaces occurs at a time when the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) has been recorded as rowing back on existing commitments to climate change policy. We see these tendencies as related, with the latter underplaying the gravity of what this Special Issue’s Call for Papers calls the “environmental basis of survival,” while the former serves as the ideological red meat of populist diversion. Against such trends, and informed and inspired by ecological abolitionist politics, we argue for a multi-scalar conception of security that embraces and acknowledges the interdependence of environmental, economic and social justice. Empirically, we show how the prison institution operates at the sharp end of a biopolitical and necropolitical continuum, beginning with communities beset by problems associated with economic inequality, lack of housing, poverty, and material oppression, upon whom disposability is conferred. The Irish state’s penal and social policies and rhetoric serve to maintain this necropolitical status quo by insisting that the carceral space of the prison is essential for “security” and for some lives to f…
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: Elizabeth Kiely
creator: Rosie R. Meade
creator: Katharina Swirak
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 AMBIENTES: Revista de Geografia e Ecologia Política http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-06-23
publication date: 2026-06-23
doi: 10.48075/16fzsw90

Material Traces of Collective Mourning: Memorial Space-Making of Black Mother Activists in a Rio de Janeiro Favela
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description: Abstract This article explores the gendered, classed and racialized impacts of urban necropolitics on Black women in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. It is commonly believed that Black men, who are disproportionately victimized by lethal police violence, suffer the most from necropolitical state violence. However, by privileging perspectives of Black mother activists, this article shows that necropolitical security governance deliberately targets Black women. Black mothers are the main caregivers to their children and families, everyday police violence thus affects Black mothers in gender-specific ways, destroying family and social ties and fundamentally disrupting Black women’s ability to sustain and care for Black life. I argue that necropolitical governance fundamentally relies on the invisibilization of Black women, their everyday work and their gender-specific suffering. Drawing on on-site and online ethnographic fieldwork (2019-2021) and hybrid empirical material, this study centers on the spatial practices of resistance and memorial space-making of Black mothers’ movements. Despite the multiple forms of discrimination and oppression that they face, mothers’ movements claim space for collective mourning and spatially anchor their demands for justice and the reduction of violence. Black mother activists not only create embodied, spatially grounded knowledge about the everyday impacts of state violence, but also appropriate space to memorialize violent events and, thereby, counteract the trivialization of anti-Black violence. Key words: Black mother activism; memory work; favelas; gendered necropolitics. Traços materiais do luto coletivo: a construção do espaço memorial por mães negras ativistas em uma favela do Rio de Janeiro Resumo O presente artigo tem o objetivo de analisar os impactos de gênero, classe e raça da necropolítica urbana sobre mulheres negras nas favelas do Rio de Janeiro. Acredita-se que homens negros, que são desproporcionalmente vitimados pela …
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: Josefa Maria Stiegler
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 AMBIENTES: Revista de Geografia e Ecologia Política http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-06-23
publication date: 2026-06-23
doi: 10.48075/y0jdk521

Nuclear Half-Lives, Necropolitical Afterlives: The Canadian Nuclear Industry, Western Militarism, and Indigenous Resistance at Chalk River
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description: Abstract This article takes as its starting point the approved construction of a federally mandated nuclear waste repository on unceded Algonquin/Omàmìwininìwag territory in Ontario, Canada. First, it attends to the Canadian government’s ongoing violation of Indigenous land rights and the historical relegation of under-resourced populations and land to the immediate or downstream effects of acute climate toxicity. In the process, this critique works to extend the field of nuclear necropolitics beyond its habitual anthropocentrism to consider how indigenous wildlife and natural reserves are similarly targeted by sovereign power and deemed expendable. Second, this article explores how the nuclear waste in question came to be. Much of the material destined for the repository was generated at Chalk River Laboratories, a nuclear research center and outgrowth of the Manhattan project, as well as at a refinery in Port Hope, Ontario, which processed much of the uranium (mined in Port Radium, Northwest Territories) used in the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Despite the post-war governmental declaration that Chalk River had been repurposed to explore the peaceful uses of atomic energy, the facility continued producing plutonium to be used in U.S. nuclear weapons production for four more decades. These three nuclear sites (Chalk River, Port Radium, and Port Hope) thus constitute a layered political constellation that illustrates how the construction of local “sacrifice zones” is connected to the creation of similarly sacrificial zones abroad. The article foregrounds Indigenous-led resistance efforts, which have driven remediation efforts and exposed the clandestine operations of the Canadian nuclear industry working in collaboration with federal and provincial governments. Keywords: nuclear necropolitics, Canadian nuclear history, radioactive waste, Manhattan Project, Indigenous environmentalisms. Meia-vida nuclear, sequelas necropolíticas: A indústria…
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: Nicole Grimaldi
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 AMBIENTES: Revista de Geografia e Ecologia Política http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-06-23
publication date: 2026-06-23
doi: 10.48075/pr9js012

Necroecology: Environmental Death in the Age of Climate Collapse and Ecocidal Development
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description: Abstract This paper introduces necroecology as a theoretical extension of necropolitics, exploring how environmental destruction functions as a structured mode of governance rather than an unintended consequence of capitalism. While Achille Mbembe’s necropolitics focuses on the governance of human life and death, necroecology expands this framework to include the systematic sacrifice of ecosystems, species, and planetary systems within the logic of economic and political domination. Building on political ecology, extractivism, and slow violence theories, this study examines the historical regimes of accumulation that have shaped necroecological governance, from colonial extractivism to contemporary hyper-extractivism. It also engages with decolonial thought to challenge Eurocentric narratives of environmental degradation and examines the role of necroecological policies. By situating necroecology as a paradigm for the global ecocide order, the paper contends that contemporary governance does not merely tolerate environmental destruction but actively organizes it as a structural condition of political economy, thereby normalizing ecological death as the foundation of capitalist development and global power relations. This article is intended as a foundational contribution to the debate on necroecology, offering a conceptual framework that bridges critical theories of governance, decolonial approaches, and ecological thought. It invites further scholarly discussion on how necroecology can illuminate the intersections of Environmental crisis, ecocides, and power in the twenty-first century. Keywords: Necroecology; Necropolitics; Ecocide; Extractivism; Environmental governance. Necroecologia: morte ambiental na era do colapso climático e do desenvolvimento ecocida Resumo Este artigo introduz a necroecologia como uma extensão teórica da necropolítica, explorando a forma como a destruição ambiental funciona como um modo estruturado de governação e não como uma consequênci…
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: Simone Lucatello
creator: Luis R. Fernández Carril
creator: Diana Siller Contreras
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 AMBIENTES: Revista de Geografia e Ecologia Política http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-06-23
publication date: 2026-06-23
doi: 10.48075/znzed392

Planetary Necropolitics: Ecological and Social Challenges and Conflicts Across the World
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subject: Editorial
  topic: section
creator: Marcelo Lopes de Souza
creator: Rosie R. Meade
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 AMBIENTES: Revista de Geografia e Ecologia Política http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2026-06-23
publication date: 2026-06-23
doi: 10.48075/xg2mhp04

Power first!
type: item
subject: Editorial
  topic: section
creator: Luciano Zanetti Pessôa Candiotto
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-26
publication date: 2025-12-26
doi: 10.48075/amb.v7i2.36613

Geografia Ambiental: Quando o charme é atributo da ciência
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description: Resenha do livro "Geografia Ambiental: Raízes, Seiva, frutos e sementes" SOUZA, Marcelo Lopes de. Geografia Ambiental: Raízes, Seiva, frutos e sementes. Rio de Janeiro: Consequência, 2025.
subject: Resenha
  topic: section
creator: Ricardo Assis Gonçalves
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date: 2025-12-26
publication date: 2025-12-26
doi: 10.48075/amb.v7i2.36532

“Foi só a gente se entender, que o SNUC passou no Congresso”
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subject: Entrevista
  topic: section
creator: Guilherme Hissa Villas Boas
creator: Yasmin Xavier Guimarães Nasri
creator: Cristiane Passos de Mattos
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date: 2025-12-26
publication date: 2025-12-26
doi: 10.48075/amb.v7i2.36530

The vulnerability of the Panará indigenous people to contamination of surface waters
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description: The purpose of this article is to analyze the socio-environmental risks linked to water resources in the Panará indigenous land. The results show the vulnerability of the Panará people in relation to the position of the indigenous land in the sub-basin and the context of land use and occupation in the area. The research started from the analysis of two episodes of alteration of the water quality of the Iriri River, registered by Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) and which are still being monitored in research at the Environmental Chemistry Laboratory of the University of Campinas (Unicamp), in addition to the observation and reports of the indigenous people. During a field trip, five leaders were interviewed. Subsequently, the transcription of the recordings was analyzed qualitatively. In addition, ethnographic research conducted with the Panará people by two authors allows us to address aspects of the group's life and its relationship with the river, as well as to point out how this people was the victim of State violence that needs to be redressed. Spatial data on land ownership structures, irregular occupations and deforestation in the sub-basin area up to 2023 were spatialized to support the analysis. It concluded on the need for the Brazilian State to prioritize the concept of basin and sub hydrographic basin in the demarcation and protection of indigenous lands, revealed that public lands, not designated, are part of the problem, resulting from the neglect of the State in relation to the uncontrolled use and occupation of public lands in the union. Keywords: Demarcation of indigenous lands; Iriri river drainage area; Land use and occupation.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: Zaira Moutinho
creator: Deyvisson Batista Rocha
creator: Fabiano Bechelany
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date: 2025-12-26
publication date: 2025-12-26
doi: 10.48075/amb.v7i2.33857

The socionature of waters on urban landscape: Reflections from cases in Juiz de Fora (MG)
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description: During the process of urban expansion, helocrene, limnocrene and rheocrene water systems become hybrids between the natural and the social. The logic of spatial reproduction to meet urban needs leads to alterations in the structure and dynamics of waterscapes, which materialize in adaptations imposed by land use and cover patterns, governed by capital flows. The transformation of hydrological systems into water supply sources, the impermeabilization of surfaces, and the obliteration of water bodies alter hydrogeographical forms and processes through socio-natural interrelations. Medium-sized cities, such as Juiz de Fora (MG), exhibit specificities related to the transformations of urban and periurban hydrological systems, mediated by distinct logics of land appropriation and spatial reproduction. In this perspective, the aim is to identify the transformations of hydrological systems in the periurban area of Juiz de Fora, based on the analysis of orbital data, including satellite images and field records, interpreted through the lenses of Hydrogeography in dialogue with Political Ecology. The results show that helocrene and limnocrene environments have been practically hidden from the urban landscape, while rheocrene environments are severely altered. In periurban areas, the multiplicity of actors is reflected in varying degrees of artificialization of water systems, with greater variability in water uses and a higher diversity of waterscapes.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: Miguel Felippe
creator: Rogério Barros
creator: Mariana Gabriela Garcia Braga
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-26
publication date: 2025-12-26
doi: 10.48075/amb.v7i2.34421

Ambientalismos corporativos: Captura, instrumentalização e controle sócio-espacial
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subject: Apresentação de dossiê
  topic: section
creator: Thiago Roniere Rebouças Tavares
creator: Raquel Giffoni Pinto
creator: Maíra Sertã Mansur
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date: 2025-07-10
publication date: 2025-07-10
doi: 10.48075/amb.v7i1.35704

Cinza que te quero verde: As várias faces do “empresarialismo ecológico”
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subject: Editorial
  topic: section
creator: Marcelo Lopes de Souza
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date: 2025-07-10
publication date: 2025-07-10
doi: 10.48075/amb.v7i1.35703

Nosso marco é ancestral: Direito à luta territorial e à preservação ambiental no Território Indígena de Taunay/Ipegue
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subject: Direto da Luta
  topic: section
creator: Paulo Baltazar
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2025-07-10
publication date: 2025-07-10
doi: 10.48075/amb.v7i1.35702

Capitalism and the politics of resignation
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description: Anthropologists since the 1990s have paid greater attention to the state and governmentality than to one of the most consequential forms of power in our time, the corporation. The lack of attention to corporations is especially problematic when the harm they cause is readily apparent and substantial. We propose to reorient the study of power in anthropology to focus on the strategies corporations use in response to their critics and how this facilitates the perpetuation of harm. We identify three main phases of corporate response to critique: denial, acknowledgement and token accommodation, and strategic engagement. In case studies of the tobacco and mining industries, we show how corporate responses to their critics protect these industries from potential delegitimization and allow them to continue operating in favorable regulatory environments. Finally, we connect these corporate strategies to pervasive feelings of discontent about the present and the perceived inability to change the future. Although corporations usually benefit from the politics of resignation, we argue that widespread dissatisfaction with corporate practices represents an important starting point for social change. Keywords: Corporation; Power; Subjectivity.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: Peter Benson
creator: Stuart Kirsch
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date: 2025-07-10
publication date: 2025-07-10
doi: 10.48075/amb.v7i1.35632

Environmental Managerialism: A dimension of corporate environmentalization analyzed through ESG practices
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description: Environmental Managerialism: A dimension of corporate environmentalization analyzed through ESG practices Abstract This study will examine to what extent the transformations in the functioning of managerial policies and technologies induce changes in the relationship between corporate and state sectors regarding environmental issues, as well as the social, spatial, and economic repercussions. Environmental managerialism discusses the strategies and tactics of capturing and subordinating discussions and practices about nature – and its transformations – to market intentions, through trained exercises and techniques for its control and instrumentalization, or also, its concealment. Environmental managerialism addresses the configuration that a private model of managing the capitalist enterprise takes when incorporating environmental issues. This will interfere with and produce political forms – as well as "public policies" – of administration and command, competent and necessary for its intrusion into such a broad and diverse object. The text will discuss the practices of the ESG guidelines of a large steel company. To achieve the objectives of the paper, we conducted a literature review on authors who studied managerial formats and devices. We covered national and international publications, considering part of the critical literature on this subject. We researched reports and secondary data produced by public and private institutions. We qualitatively understood the application and repercussions of the ESG guidelines implemented by the company Ternium Brasil. Key words: ESG; Managerialism; Environmentalization; Environmental Managerialism; Financialization; Ternium.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: Thiago Roniere Rebouças Tavares
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date: 2025-07-10
publication date: 2025-07-10
doi: 10.48075/amb.v7i1.35597

Offshore wind energy and feminist political ecology in the global South: Research perspectives focused on small-scale women fishers
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description: This methodological essay discusses the relevance of analyzing the impacts of offshore wind energy on the livelihoods of artisanal fisherwomen and shellfish gatherers. It emphasizes the potential of qualitative methodologies, particularly Social Cartography and the construction of the SWOT matrix, to broaden the understanding of women’s fishing activities in marine territories. Grounded in concepts from political ecology with a gender perspective, the study highlights dimensions that are often rendered invisible in the processes of implementing energy technologies in Brazil. Thus, it seeks to contribute to the debate on energy justice and intersectionality by advocating for the integration of gender studies into the Geography of Energy. Furthermore, it underscores the need to incorporate women into public policies related to the expansion of renewable energies, ensuring that their experiences and practices are recognized at every stage of the process. Finally, the essay analyzes the potential of participatory methods in the collection of qualitative data, proposing approaches that foster social and environmental justice in the face of the transformations advanced by the energy sector. Keywords: SWOT Matrix; Social Cartography; Shellfish Gatherers; Energy Transition; Northeast Brazil.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: Sâmila Silva Lima
creator: Adryane Gorayeb
creator: Jacobo Ramirez
creator: Regina Balbino da Silva
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-26
publication date: 2025-12-26
doi: 10.48075/amb.v7i2.34464

The agribusiness incursion in education: An analysis of the environmental discourse of the Associação Brasileira do Agronegócio (ABAG)
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description: The analysis of the insertion of agribusiness in education, considering its intentions and effects, is the central objective of our investigations. In this article, the analytical focus focused on the environmental dimension of the discourse in this sector, which can be inserted into the Environmental Education (EE) component. To this end, we conducted a literature review on the subject, followed by documentary research through the examination of current legislation and the environmental discourses found in the Módulos do Programa Educacional “Agronegócio na Escola” (PEAE) developed by the Associação Brasileira do Agronegócio da região de Ribeirão Preto (ABAG/RP). The study, with a qualitative approach, is based on the historical and dialectical materialist method, as well as drawing on contributions from the theoretical strand of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). As a result, it was possible to verify that the agribusiness investment in the country's public schools aims to spread positive images of the sector in terms of sustainability, disassociating and/or denying its relationship with environmental problems.Thus, the insertion of agribusiness into education, including the entrepreneurial approach of EE provision in formal education, through a pragmatic and conservative conservative Educação Ambiental Empresarial do Agronegócio (EAEA), appears to be an ongoing and potentially adverse process, as it weakens both education and Environmental Education of their critical potential. Keywords: Environmental education. Agribusiness. Sustainability.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: Tássia Gabriele Balbi de Figueiredo Cordeiro
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date: 2025-07-10
publication date: 2025-07-10
doi: 10.48075/amb.v7i1.34819

Corporate-state method in the mineral sector: Discourses and practices in the context of energy transition
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description: The contemporary global socio-ecological context is marked by catastrophic events associated with climate change. In this scenario, the race for minerals considered essential for the energy transition intensifies processes of socio-metabolic disruptions on an expanded scale, in space and time. In Brazil, the corporate sector finds a favorable environment to expand its mining activities, counting on the substantial support of the State, which endorses and facilitates development projects. In Bahia, this process generates numerous socio-environmental conflicts and deepens the historical invisibility of rural peoples and traditional communities. This article analyzes the method of the corporate sector and the State, especially in Bahia, considering their discourses and practices in the context of the energy transition and the global demand for strategic minerals. Specifically, it reflects on the unprecedented expansion of mineral research and prospecting and the resulting territorial conflicts. It addresses the State's narratives in the public hearing held in the Legislative Assembly of Bahia, with the central participation of the Movement for Popular Sovereignty in Mining, highlighting contradictions based on the different perspectives in dispute. Furthermore, it discusses the actions of the state-owned mineral research company, which provides consultancy to mining companies and reproduces discourses strategically propagated by the corporate media sector. The research adopts a dialectical approach, based on the analysis of concrete reality, its historical movement and its contradictions, using qualitative techniques such as participant observation in meetings and training spaces of social movements, as well as during the aforementioned public hearing, and documentary analysis of journalistic articles and publications on official social networks of mining companies and municipal and state governments. In general terms, it highlights an architecture that involves mechan…
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: Lucas Zenha Antonino
creator: Valdirene Santos Rocha Sousa
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date: 2025-07-10
publication date: 2025-07-10
doi: 10.48075/amb.v7i1.35015

Costa Rica in the international moral of decarbonization: Multi-scalar political interactions
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description: This article analyzes the construction of an international decarbonization morale and its relationship with projects on a national scale. The central objective of this work was to explore the multi-scale interactions between the international decarbonization morale and its national appropriation, with a case study of Costa Rica and its symbolic construction as an exemplary decarbonization country. To do this, we looked at the discussions surrounding the formulation of Costa Rica's National Decarbonization Policy. The main findings reveal that decarbonization emerges as the dominant moral response to the climate crisis by focusing on the technical management of greenhouse gases while displacing the need for structural transformations of the capitalist system. Concurrently, Costa Rica instrumentalizes this framework to reinforce its international image as environmentally exemplary state, employing decarbonization as a strategy to position itself in green markets, attract transnational investments, and negotiate geoeconomic advantages. It is concluded that, although decarbonization offers practical solutions, it also operates as a political discourse that masks underlying economic interests and contributes to perpetuating the systemic dynamics generating the climate crisis. Finally, given the urgency of climate change/crisis, critical reflections on hegemonic responses and the ideological processes that construct socioecological reality are imperative for advancing toward a horizon of social and environmental justice. Keywords: International morality; decarbonization; geopolitics; consensus; hegemony.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: Andrés Jiménez Corrales
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date: 2025-07-10
publication date: 2025-07-10
doi: 10.48075/amb.v7i1.34987

The Law Found in the Pampa: The struggle against neoextractivist mining in a region of the Brazilian biome
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description: The article analyzes the socio-environmental conflict in Palmas, in the Alto Camaquã region, where the Pampa biome remains well-preserved. In 2016, a mineral exploration project was proposed, sparking a popular mobilization against its implementation. This qualitative research, using participant observation and semi-structured interviews, investigates the struggle between neoextractivism, represented by mining, and local resistance, since the proposal for mineral exploration was shelved after years of resistance, reflecting the success of the movement. The article asks: what motivates the fight against mining in Palmas, and how is this connected to the sociobiodiversity of the Pampa? In this context, concepts such as neoextractivism, sociobiodiversity, and popular sovereignty are discussed. The analysis, based on the hermeneutic-dialectical perspective and the Theory of Environmental Justice, reveals strong opposition to mining projects in the Pampa, linked to the region's sociobiodiversity and the local cultural connection. This resistance led to the proposal of recognizing the Pampa as a "mining-free territory," an idea gaining support in community discussions that could influence public policies on mining in Brazil, reflecting the importance of popular sovereignty in the formulation of laws and policies. Keywords: Pampa biome; Socio-environmental conflict; Sociobiodiversity; Neoextractivism; Mining-free territory.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: Isabel Foletto Curvello
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date: 2025-12-26
publication date: 2025-12-26
doi: 10.48075/amb.v7i2.34641

Sérgio “Papagaio”: Um garimpeiro tradicional contra o mar de lama
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subject: Direto da Luta
  topic: section
creator: Ingrid Vitória de Souza Oliveira
creator: Thiago Roniere Rebouças Tavares
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
doi: 10.48075/b4pm8k28

REVISITANDO NOSSOS CLÁSSICOS: "Ecologia e Pensamento Revolucionário"
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description: Tradução do ensaio "Ecologia e Pensamento Revolucionário", de Murray Bookchin. Tradutor: Rafael Zilio
subject: Traduções de textos clássicos
  topic: section
creator: Rafael Zilio
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
doi: 10.48075/amb.v6i2.34622

Markets socio-territorial construction: theoretical notes on the peasants protagonism potential in agroecological product markets
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description: Markets socio-territorial construction: theoretical notes on the peasants protagonism potential in agroecological product markets Based on the assumption that markets are product of a social (and territorial) construction process, this article discusses how we arrived at the so-called market system, how peasants have established exchanges and adapted to this system, and the importance of them being protagonists in the process of markets socio-territorial construction. Although markets are hegemonically controlled under the aegis of capital expanded accumulation, it is believed that peasants, organised collectively, can create beneficial strategies for marketing their products, especially food. In this sense, through agroecology there is scope for structuring other relationships with markets. A brief history of exchange relations is presented, followed by a debate on the current market system. Elements of the concept of markets socio-territorial construction are presented, based on the potential role of peasants who produce and commercialise agroecological products. The text is based on theoretical notes and deals with the opportunities for the socio-territorial construction of markets through agroecology. The methodological procedures used were a literature review and reflections based on participant research with agroecological producers and their organisations, mainly located in Rio Grande do Sul and Paraná. As a result, inferences are made about how peasants create and institutionalise social relations through agroecology, projecting them territorially in different interactions with markets and taking advantage of possible ‘cracks in capitalism’. Keywords: market; socio-territorial construction; protagonism; peasants; agroecology.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: Márcio Freitas Eduardo
creator: Luciano Zanetti Pessôa Candiotto
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date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
doi: 10.48075/amb.v6i2.34606

Geography and environmental concerns: A history of parallel efforts, wasted opportunities and competing narratives
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description: Geography and environmental concerns: A history of parallel efforts, wasted opportunities and competing narratives There have always been problems of the type that we now call ‘environmental.’ However, there is no record of societies before ours that created an entire discursive apparatus to deal, with insistence and alarm, with environmental disasters and phenomena of degradation or destruction of ecosystems and biomes. Much less was there any talk of an ‘environmental crisis’ – and there was also no major ‘ecological movement,’ nor even widespread ‘environmentalist’ activism. What seems to have represented new and decisive factors were the advent of capitalism as a mode of production, with the replacement of simple reproduction of capital by expanded reproduction, and the rise of a civil society whose movements began to be driven, in the second half of the 20th century, by increasingly diverse agendas. How has geography positioned itself in the face of all this? What have been its contributions? Despite studying ‘nature’ with the aim of understanding geobiophysical phenomena, physical geographers have often refrained from taking a strong public stance on environmental issues, omitting themselves from related debates. On the other hand, many human geographers have been seduced by the idea of an “epistemological purification” – that is, by the attempt to transform geography into a “pure” social science, free from the task of studying geobiophysical processes – since the 1970s and 1980s. This ‘epistemological purification’ has had several consequences, starting with the fact that, for many human geographers, ‘nature’ has been reduced at best to a historical-philosophical-sociological discourse on something that, nevertheless, has become uninteresting for them from the perspective of empirical research and detailed knowledge. This ‘epistemological purification’ ultimately fueled a tendency among many physical geographers to increasingly distance themselves from human …
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
creator: Marcelo Lopes de Souza
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
doi: 10.48075/amb.v6i2.34602

Enxugando gelo
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subject: Editorial
  topic: section
creator: Luciano Zanetti Pessôa Candiotto
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
doi: 10.48075/amb.v6i2.34600