Lutar com os pés no chão para continuar caminhando: uma ecologia política da megamineração de ferro no distrito do Vale das Cancelas (Grão Mogol/MG)

Abstract

Today, we live times whose asymmetries provided by the relationship between development and inequality are visible and striking, and thematic as land and territory become importants. From the 1980s onwards, there was an expansion of citizen rights and awareness of them of the population, changes that provided more space for resistance and claims about collective and customary law. Minas Gerais has a large number of traditional peoples and communities with distinct characteristics, emerging from, for example, ethnic identities (indigenous peoples, terreiro, quilombolas, gypsies), linked to specific ecosystems (geraizers, ebb tillage, caatingueiros, veredeiros), and also defined by agro-extractive activities (pickers of evergreen flowers, faiscadores), among other categories objectified in social movement. This master's thesis aims to analyze how the struggle of the Vale das Cancelas movement for the legal recognition of its traditional territory is strengthened in the process of confronting the Vale do Rio Pardo Project, a complex mining project for the extraction of iron ore based in Grão Mogol, a municipality located in the Serra do Espinhaço to the north of Minas Gerais. The work seeks to provide an academic analysis based on studies on political ecology, neo-extractivism and legal recognition of traditional peoples and communities from the ethnographic perspective, with Camp Alvimar Ribeiro as a locus of research, analyzing it as a political occupatio