Environmental Justice and the case of quilombolas communities of Oriximiná/PA: for a contemporary critical of Environmental Education

Abstract

The article aims to elucidate issues related to contemporary ecological, philosophical, anthropological and social thinking related to Environmental Justice, bringing to the debate the case of the communities of Oriximiná/PA, Brazil, together with a deep critique of the dominant paradigms of environmental knowledge and Education itself Environmental. The investigation points out that environmental justice, as well as environmental education are established in the space that is the conflict, the dispute for the reappropriation of nature and culture, where nature and culture resist the imposition of values and processes as they become values of the market. In Brazil, “traditional populations” have for decades been displaced from their lands to give way to dams, mining projects, large-scale agriculture, construction, mass tourism, logging and Basis of the “property” paradigm.