Colonialidade, neoextrativismo e resistências locais: conflito socioambiental e a atuação da Vale S.A em Onça Puma/PA

Abstract

This case study seeks to present the empirical investigation of the socio-environmental conflict about the phenomena of coloniality and neoextractivism related to the performance of the mining company Vale S.A – one of the largest nickel producers in the world – specifically in its development of this metal, called Onça Puma, located in the city of Ourilândia do Norte, in the state of Pará, Brazil. The case in question generates a socio-environmental conflict, which occurs from the overlapping of different logics of social spaces, which takes place through the transnational dynamics of the multinational company Vale, generating conflicts and, consequently, local resistance of Kayapó Xikrin do Cateté and Cateté indigenous peoples and of affected small farmers who need to mobilize against coloniality and neoextractivism present in Latin America, seeking survival