Article ID: CBB165051260

Rethinking governance through Samarco’s dam collapse in Brazil: a critique from the STS perspective (2023)

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This paper is based on a study of the Fundão dam collapse in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and it aims to analyze a widely used and rarely problematized concept in the corporate and, increasingly, in the public policy world: governance. Considering, in this case, the environmental governance that originated the disaster and the subsequent remediation governance, source of profound inequity, I try to extract its main problematics. In fact, the critical literature on governance systems points to the forced depoliticization of political decisions related to the transfer of public responsibilities to the private sector as the main issue. Based on the case, I intend to argue that the hegemony of techno-scientific solutions in eminently political contexts founds the aforementioned depoliticization, adding to and therefore aggravating the asymmetries of power already configured in terms of race and social class.

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Authors & Contributors
Henry, Emmanuel
Jas, Nathalie
Ramana, M. V.
Sovacool, Benjamin K.
Wiber, Melanie G.
Wynne, Brian
Journals
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Social Studies of Science
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
Technology and Culture
Publishers
University Press of Kansas
Concepts
Governance
Science and technology studies (STS)
Public policy
Expertise
Power (social sciences)
Science and politics
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Canada
Great Britain
China
Europe
France
Institutions
European Commission
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
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