Comunicação e resistência: meios e usos da comunicação por grupos sociais atingidos pelo desastre da Hydro Alunorte em Barcarena, Pará

Abstract

communication triggered by the social groups affected by the Hydro Alunorte disaster, in Barcarena, Pará, located in a historical context of environmental injustice (ACSERALD, 2001) that crosses the socio-environmental conflicts in the Amazon. What motivated our study was the fact that the media coverage of the environmental disaster, denounced by local communities and occurred in the beginning of 2018, involving the leakage of tailings from the Norwegian company Hydro Alunorte, leader in the global aluminum market, has achieved national repercussion. and international, but with little space for popular and local voices (STEINBRENNER, GUERREIRO NETO; BRAGANÇA; CASTRO, 2020). Thus, our intention, based on an exploratory study of a qualitative character (YIN, 2016), considering a period of 24 months from the occurrence of the disaster, was precisely to seek the other voices, usually and historically invisible, in order to understand, from the perspective of mediatization (HEPP, 2014), the communication processes and practices (FRANCE, 2016) for resistance (PERUZZO, 1998) that mark in this period the actions of the mobilized social groups, in what we call the field of communicative resistance, in reaction to the impacts caused by the disaster and in the defense of rights and their territories in the municipality of Barcarena, understood as mining "sacrifice zone" (CASTRO, 2019).