Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: JONATHAN DA SILVA ARAUJO

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STUDENT : JONATHAN DA SILVA ARAUJO
DATE: 27/11/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Remoto - Google Meet
TITLE:

Environmental racism – reflections and dialogues on the phenomenon in Morro da Oficina – Alto da Serra (Petrópolis – RJ). Climate justice

KEY WORDS:

Environmental racism – socio-spatial inequality – geosystems – capitalist production of space – race.

 

PAGES: 29
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUMMARY:

This study analyzes environmental racism in Petrópolis, linking the unequal
occupation of urban space to the dynamics of capital and the neoliberal logic. Based
on Guy Debord’s reflections, it is observed that the city is also constructed
symbolically, through images of progress that conceal the precariousness of
marginalized areas. The Black population, historically pushed to hillsides and
vulnerable regions, is displaced from central and safer territories, revealing how racial
and historical inequalities materialize in urban space.
David Harvey’s reflections in The Madness of Economic Reason reveal how
“economic reason” naturalizes market logic and legitimizes policies that deepen social
exclusion. Capitalist growth, presented as rational and inevitable, concentrates wealth,
precarizes lives, and turns crises into structural elements of society. The 2022 tragedy
at Morro da Oficina highlights these inequalities: climatic events do not affect everyone
equally, as historical, economic, and symbolic decisions determine who lives in safety
and who remains exposed to risk.
According to Lélia Gonzalez in Lugar de Preto, there is a distinct gaze directed
at Black people, turning them into targets — in the cited book, targets of police
violence, but also of broader social and structural factors that confine them to scarcity
and subservience. This research reflects that condition, as Black populations are the
primary victims of natural disasters and are denied adequate housing and
living conditions.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1253262 - GENY FERREIRA GUIMARAES
Interna - 1707420 - LIRIAN MELCHIOR
Externa à Instituição - REGINA CÉLIA DE OLIVEIRA - UNICAMP
Externo à Instituição - LINDBERG NASCIMENTO JÚNIOR - UFSC