Fragments d'un fleuve : étude anthropologique des relations au Rio Doce à Regência, après la rupture du barrage minier du Fundão (2015), Brésil
(2024)
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- This thesis, at the crossroads of anthropology and environmental humanities, focuses on the social and territorial (re)compositions observed at the mouth of the Rio Doce river in Brazil, following the collapse of a mining dam that contaminated the river. Beyond the poverty and narrowness of compensation calculations, the reality on the ground shows that it is the invisibilization and denial of the multiplicity of relationships to the river and the territory that are at stake. My thesis proposes to go against the institutions in charge of compensation by multiplying viewpoints and knowledge about the river, and highlighting local struggles in order to understand how to translate and claim "other" relationships to the river as legitimate in the political and legal battles waged against the companies responsible for the disaster. In this way, the thesis shows that the artisanal fishing village of Regência, in which I carried out an ethnographic survey, is immersed in a multiplicity of relationships to the world that partially exceed and overlap each other, resulting in a situation of instability and fragility, leading to subtle resistances that are always replayed, necessary, but never guaranteed.
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UCLouvain SSH/IRIS-L/CSIR - Centre de recherches et d'interventions sociologiques UCLouvain SSH/IRIS-L/CASP - Centre d'anthropologie,sociologie et psychologie : études et recherches
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Woitchik, J. (2024). Fragments d’un fleuve : étude anthropologique des relations au Rio Doce à Regência, après la rupture du barrage minier du Fundão (2015), Brésil. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/217957