This session seeks to discuss the causes and consequences of environmental racism. Both the pandemic, as well as the climate crisis and the catastrophes that result from them, affect people differently depending on their race. Minority ethnic groups continue to be removed from large centers, thus occupying the peripheries, slopes, hills, and flooded areas, becoming increasingly vulnerable to impending natural disasters.
SHORT FILMS EXHIBITION – WEAVES & SEAMS
Guia das ‘telas de projeção’ para histórias apagadas (2022). Marina Biazotto Frascareli, Lívia Zanelli. Length – 3:00 min.
Lugar de pretos: desigualdades e potências na leitura da raça e do urbano (2022). Desirée Carneiro. Length – 3:06 min.
Humanização no processo de reciclagem (2022). Victória Rechden e Silva. Length – 3:11 min
MEDIATION:
Dulce Maria Pereira Architect and Urban Planner, professor and researcher at the Federal University of Ouro Preto, Coordinator of the Environmental Education and Research Laboratory of the Public Management Department and the Production Engineering Department of the university, author of scientific books on disasters and other didactic books. She was Deputy to Senator Suplicy, Ambassador, when Executive Secretary of the CPLP and President of the Palmares Cultural Foundation. She is a member of the National Council of Justice working group, the Riopretense Academy of Arts and Culture and is a columnist for Congresso em Foco (Congress in Focus), besides being part of other national and international institutions. She is author and co-author of articles and books, among them a set of productions about management and environmentally responsible technologies. Currently her priority areas of work are territories affected by socio-technological disasters, environmental racism, processes of occupation of territories and compulsory displacement, as well as spatial organization for the good living. She is dedicated to Environmental Education. She conducts scientific research on the history of territories, ecosystemic losses, reparations, and social cartographies in the production of her work. She is a mother, Afroecofeminist and activist of the MNU and the Women’s Observatory.
GUESTS:
Guilherme Brasil State coordinator of MLB – Movimento de Luta nos Bairros, Vilas e Favelas, he began his militancy in high school, acting in the student movement of technical education. Today he develops the fight for housing in the São Paulo capital and is the coordinator of Ocupação dos Imigrantes.
Marina Marçal Doctoral student and Master in Sociology and Law at UFF-RJ. Master in Ethnic and Racial Relations from CEFET-RJ. Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School – Environment and Energy (2022). Coordinator of Climate Policy at iCS.
Rodrigo Santos de Jesus Geographer, graduated from the Federal University of Bahia with international mobility at the University of Coimbra. He currently works in the development, analysis, review, organization and dissemination of action plans and projects on climate justice and extreme weather events at Greenpeace Brazil.
