A wave of mud: the travel of toxic water, from Bento Rodrigues to the Brazilian Atlantic
ABSTRACT This article offers an anthropological examination of the aftermath of the Samarco dam disaster of November 2015. We analyze the widely used metaphor of the wave of mud to track how news, experience, and representation of toxic iron ore tailings water traveled from Bento Rodrigues down the...
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| Language: | English |
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Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros
2018-04-01
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| Series: | Revista do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0020-38742018000100033&tlng=en |