Banca de DEFESA: Samuel Silva da Fonseca Borges

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STUDENT : Samuel Silva da Fonseca Borges
DATE: 04/03/2024
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Sociologia
TITLE:

State, Corporations and Social damage: Environmental Racism and Social Dominations

KEY WORDS:

Sociological Theory; Green Criminology; State Theory; Intersectionality; Environmental Racism

PAGES: 221
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUMMARY:

This doctoral dissertation is situated within the research line of sociological theory, operating within the interdisciplinary framework between sociology and criminology. The research topic explores the relationship between social dominations and socio-environmental damages, with the following research questions: I. What social processes structure socio-environmental damages, which social groups promote and benefit from them, and which social groups are most adversely affected and in what ways?; and II. How do unequal power relations and the non-neutrality of law, the penal system, and the capitalist State impact socio-environmental struggles in tactical and strategic issues? To address these questions, critical reflections are initially drawn upon the epistemologies of sociological and criminological theories, highlighting intersectionality as a counterpoint to reductionism/determinism in critical social theories, and contextualizing the limits of criminology in addressing the damages and criminality of powerful agents, such as States and corporations, thereby demanding a transformation of theoretical and methodological paradigms from crime to social harm. Thus, the analysis focuses on the harmful practices of powerful, state and corporate agents, primarily above processes of criminalization, even when they are producers of massive social and environmental damages, such as in cases of genocide and ecocide. Empirically, violence against indigenous peoples, peasants, black populations, and quilombolas, among others affected by environmental destruction, is discussed. Drawing upon green criminology, mechanisms of neutralization employed by powerful entities to ensure impunity and immunity from damages externalized in their economic and political activities are identified. Additionally, the structural dynamics stemming from colonialism, neocolonialism, imperialism, and dependency reproduce a relationship of labor exploitation and natural resource extraction in the Global South to ensure social development in the Global North. The externalization of socio-environmental damages does not occur randomly but according to an intersectional logic of social dominations, demonstrating the explanatory and mobilization potential of the concept of environmental racism in the fight for environmental justice. In this regard, various incentives and protections provided by law, the penal system, and the capitalist State to corporations and the exploitation of commodities reveal the non-neutrality of the state in the power relationship between extractivist capital and social movements, generating political, strategic, and tactical dilemmas regarding whether forms of resistance and social transformation should or should not include mediations with such selective institutions and fields of power struggle. Considering divergent critical conceptions of the State, the thesis presents how critical social movements and intellectuals argue involving both potentials and pitfalls of pathways that include or reject such mediations, thus addressing a persistent dilemma in the struggles against social dominations that may never reach a consensus but should not be underestimated.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - ESTER GAMMARDELLA RIZZI - USP
Interna - 2345026 - DEBORA MESSENBERG GUIMARAES
Externa à Instituição - LAYLA DANIELE PEDREIRA DE CARVALHO - MIR-GOV
Presidente - 1804106 - STEFAN FORNOS KLEIN
Externo ao Programa - 1249221 - VLADIMIR FERRARI PUZONE - null