The bio-necropolitics of environmental injustices in Brazil
| Autor | Magno Federici Gomes - Pedro Henrique Moreira da Silva - Alcides Francisco Antúnez Sánchez |
| Cargo | Postdoctoral Internship in Public Law and Education at Universidade Nova de Lisboa-Portugal - Academic Master in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development by Escola Superior Dom Helder Câmara - Academic Master in Legal Advisory, with mention in Environmental Administrative Law, by the Universidad de Oriente (UO) |
| Páginas | 253-277 |
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THE BIO-NECROPOLITICS OF
ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICES IN BRAZIL1
Magno Federici Gomes2
Escola Superior Dom Helder Câmara (ESDHC)
Pedro Henrique Moreira da Silva3
Instituto DH (IDH)
Alcides Francisco Antúnez Sánchez4
Universidad de Granma (UDG)
ABSTRACT
In this study we discuss environmental injustices as an algorithm of the
microphysics of powers. To this end, we aim at developing the concepts
of biopower, indicating a conceptual insuciency for interpreting the
peripheries of capitalism, in such a way the notions of necropolitics
will be addressed to discuss the perspective of “bare lives”. Thus, using
1 Study funded by FAPEMIG Project nº 22869, resulting from the Research Groups (CNPQ):
Regulação Ambiental da Atividade Econômica Sustentável (REGA), NEGESP, Metamorfose Jurídica,
and CEDIS (FCT-PT).
2 Postdoctoral Internship in Public Law and Education at Universidade Nova de Lisboa-Portugal
(CAPES/BEX 3642/07-0 scholarship). Postdoctoral Internships in Civil Law and Civil Procedural
Law, Ph.D. in Law, and Master’s degree in Procedural Law at Universidad de Deusto-Spain
(Scholarships from the UNESCO Chair and Gobierno Vasco-Espanha). Master’s degree in Education
from PUC Minas. Doctorate and Academic Master Professor in Environmental Law and Sustainable
Development at Escola Superior Dom Helder Câmara. Licensed Professor at Faculdade de Direito
Arnaldo Janssen. Partner Lawyer at Moraes & Federici Advocacia Associada. Leader of the Research
Group: Regulação Ambiental da Atividade Econômica Sustentável (REGA)/CNPQ-BRA and member
of the groups: Centro de Investigação & Desenvolvimento sobre Direito e Sociedade (CEDIS)/FCT-
PT, Núcleo de Estudos sobre Gestão de Políticas Públicas (NEGESP)/CNPQ-BRA and Metamorfose
Jurídica/CNPQ-BRA. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4711-5310. Lattes Curriculum: http://
lattes.cnpq.br/1638327245727283. Email: magnofederici@gmail.com
3 Academic Master in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development by Escola Superior Dom
Helder Câmara. Post-graduate student in Constitutional Law applied by Faculdade Legale (FALEG).
Improvement in Teaching through the Law at School program (DNE). Graduated in Law by Escola
Superior Dom Helder Câmara. Environmental expert, with an emphasis on valuing environmental
damage. Professor of Compliance and Environmental Sustainability and Human Rights, Landscape
and Forest Fires courses at the IDH. Lawyer at Portela, Lobato, Lima e Colen Advogados. Founding
partner of Sette e Moreira Advocacia e Consultoria. Integrates the Compliance oce and the IDH
Ethics Committee. Member of the research group: Direito Animal e Direito de Paisagem/CNPQ-
BRA. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8217-2169. Email: pedroadvdireito@gmail.com
4 Academic Master in Legal Advisory, with mention in Environmental Administrative Law, by the
Universidad de Oriente (UO). Assistant professor of the Law course at the Faculty of Economic and
Social Sciences of the Universidad de Granma (UDG). ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8561-
6837. Email: aantunez@udg.co.cu
http://dx.doi.org/10.18623/rvd.v17i39.1807
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phenomenology panoramas and the hypothetical-deductive method, we
will discuss whether environmental injustices can be understood as a
technology that promotes the death of “uninteresting” communities to
systemic demands.
Keywords: biopolitics; biopower; environmental justice; necropolitics;
vulnerability.
A BIO-NECROPOLÍTICA DAS INJUSTIÇAS AMBIENTAIS NO BRASIL
RESUMO
O presente artigo trata de discutir as injustiças ambientais como algorit-
mo da microfísica dos poderes. Para tanto, o trabalho tem por objetivo
desenvolver os conceitos acerca do biopoder, indicando uma insuciên-
cia conceitual para interpretação das periferias do capitalismo, pelo que
serão invocadas as noções de necropolítica para discutir a perspectiva
de “vidas nuas”. Assim, recorrendo aos panoramas da fenomenologia e
ao método hipotético-dedutivo, ponderar-se-á se as injustiças ambientais
podem ser entendidas como uma tecnologia de promoção da morte de co-
munidades “desinteressantes” às demandas sistêmicas.
Palavras-chave: biopoder; biopolítica; necropolítica; justiça ambiental;
vulnerabilidade.
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