Rota de fuga de vidas rompidas a comunidade Socorro e as paisagens destroçadas dos seus arredores, Barão de Cocais (MG)

Abstract

The proposal is to present an experience of the discipline “Estudos da paisagem em Geografia”, in the Geography course at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, which had the goal of excavating the “shattered” landscapes of evacuated communities such as Socorro (Barão de Cocais, Minas Gerais, Brazil) located downstream of the Vale tailings dam, condemned by the inspection agencies. Working on geopoetics through the perception experienced by students, we bare the places “usurped” from their residents. The mining company adopted a so-called preventive posture, after the disasters of the Fundão dam rupture (2015) and the Córrego do Feijão (2019), that led to the evacuation of many communities, in the middle of the night, without the right to return or rescue anything. You can now see signs there: “Escape route”. For whom? And to where?