2023/12/24 by Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue, Thaís Lemos Ribeiro, Thais Lemos Ribeiro +4 · 1 voice · 2 citations
Engineering · Social Sciences · #Environmental Justice and Health Disparities #Environmental law and policy #Mining and Resource Management
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/09644016.2023.2293437
openalex publication_date 2023/12/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This article contributes to the recent discussion on planetary justice by analyzing two environmental justice struggles around mining projects that impact indigenous peoples and traditional communities in Brazil and South Africa. Though locally based, these ecological distribution conflicts are connected to global chains, impacting the whole planet. We focus on peoples’ demands and to what extent their ways of knowing and being were considered in public consultation and litigation. Moreover, we reflect on what we can learn from these struggles. Our argument goes beyond distributive or procedural justice claims as these peoples are resisting the ontological erasure of their worlds, demanding to be consulted and participate in their own terms. These cases teach us that a deeper understanding of planetary justice entails diverse considerations of time, space, and the relations between human and non-humans. Assessing these struggles offer concrete ways to reimagine just relations, for many worlds in one planet.