A Construção Subjetiva do Atingido pela Mineração: Cartografia Psicoterráticas e Luto Ecológico em Lavra

Abstract

Ironland is a hybrid documentary that both maps the different damages of mining activity in Minas Gerais and narrates the grieving process of a fictional character facing the death of a river. Inspired by the rupture of the Fundão Dam in November 2015, the feature film performs a psychoterratic cartography of the catastrophe, describing the transformations in the territory occupied by extractivism both from the environmental impacts and changes in the region's own relief, but also from the of the desires and subjectivities of the people who live there. Seeking to weave a conceptual framework between critical ecology and psychoanalysis to better describe how environmental disasters affect us subjectively, this article analyzes how Ironland elaborates suffering in its narrative, performing an ecological mourning in which the category of affected is constantly revised and expanded to include the narrator, who finds herself engaged with the communities and landscapes she visits.