Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In Minas Gerais, Brazil, activists challenging Vale's extractive activities are often portrayed as obstacles to economic progress, while their resistance is criminalised. Paradoxically, as corporate repression intensifies, individual forms of dissent persist and evolve. Through ethnographic research, this article explores how isolated activists navigate an environment marked by surveillance and legal intimidation, resulting in social isolation. It reveals a forced transformation from collective to individual resistance, and from broad anti‐extractivism to targeted critiques of corporate practices. These transformations, while fragmenting movements, have engendered more resilient, albeit solitary, forms of activism, challenging narratives of complete corporate hegemony in extractive contexts.
DOI: 10.1111/blar.70017
Author: Léa Lebeaupin‐Salamon
Institution: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,430
OpenAlex ID: W4409699886