Justiça ambiental em território de desastres: uma ação local de resistência em São Sebastião do Burajuba/Barcarena (PA)

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze actions and organizations of actors mobilized in processes that are configured as struggles against environmental injustice and for the good living in the community of São Sebastião do Burajuba in Barcarena, municipality of the state of Pará, as resistance to issues related to environmental injustices regarding access to and use of water, in a context marked by mining activities. These activities, considered as pollutants to a high degree, result in significant changes in the ecosystem, in the ways of life, in the economic and cultural practices of quilombola communities, indigenous peoples, farmers, extractivists and fishermen. To this end, the concepts of Environmental Justice by Acselred (2010) and Bem Viver de Acosta (2016) were used, understanding that nature and its resources are references linked to a philosophy of life, part of countless histories of struggle and resistance of called traditional populations. Defending against the injustice posed regarding the unequal distribution of risks by industrial activities is presented in the form of complaints and confrontations in Barcarena carried out by the Association of Caboclos, Indígenas e Quilombolas da Amazônia (Cainquiama) and by the quilombola community São Sebastião do Burajuba. It is a research of qualitative methodology, in which in addition to data analysis and basic bibliography, interviews were conducted with several actors from the Burajuba community, including members of Cainquiama. The research also points out that the fight for environmental justice has a long way to go, mainly in a country marked by several social and territorial inequalities. The results indicated that the emissions of industrial pollutants are destined for part of a territory where populations of ethnic-racial origin live whose socioeconomic situation becomes disadvantaged.