A Amazônia e seus desafios contemporâneos: mineração e povos periféricos nestes cenários

Abstract

This work highlights the relevance of the Amazonian peoples and their historical and contemporary challenges in dealing with capitalist development, which from the beginning sought to implement the status of subalternity and peripheralization in Latin America, without taking into account the specificities of its people. In addition, we seek to understand how governments organize themselves to deal with the challenges and problems of subalternity related to mining, impoverishment of populations and contamination of nature. The research highlights the importance of focusing on the contracted impacts of the capital structure directly on the lives of individuals who least benefit from the development that has become the main narrative for the exploration of the region. Above all, it highlights that it is in this contemporary environmental agenda that we can begin to meet the political demands intrinsic to these direct actors. Finally, it brings the case of the Yanomami peoples as an example of the social problems that various peoples of the region also face in the Amazon and perhaps the beginning of a response that includes them more directly in the regional economy.