"Narratives of sustainable work in mining-affected communities: gleaning a decolonial concept", published by Professor Flávia Máximo, from the Department of Law (Dedir), is the result of an international partnership established between the Graduate Program in Law (PPGD) in UFOP and the University of Carleton, in Canada. The article was published in the Journal Special Feature -Sustainable work: Exploring the requirements of a social-ecological approach to work, of the International Labor Organization (ILO).
The paper was co-authored by Ania Zbyszewska, professor of Labor Law in the Canadian institution, with the collaboration of Professor Natália Lisboa. Prof. Máximo points out that UFOP is the only university in Brazil and Latin America present in the edition.
The research began considering that both Canada and Brazil are territories exploited in a predatory way by mining. Based on this, a comparison is made between the district of Antônio Pereira, in Ouro Preto, and a Canadian territory called Sudbury. Communities in the two regions experience long-term social and environmental problems caused by mining practices, but there are important differences between them, especially regarding the distribution of benefits and harms associated with extractivism and the integration of local people into industrial mining.
According to Prof. Máximo, the comparison between the two affected territories has the purpose of understanding the inseparability between work, environment and community from a perspective of decolonial feminism. "Ania and I, as coordinators, and Natália, as a researcher, understand that the law fragments these inseparable dimensions of work and that women in these territories have been doing a fundamental work of environmental and community care, which comes from a counter-hegemonic perspective against the environment and people exploitation by mining companies", she concludes.
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