Condições objetivas e subjetivas da questão ambiental no município de Goiás (GO) em uma perspectiva decolonial

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of an investigative study about the objective and subjective conditions of the environmental issue in the city of Goiás intertwined with the contradictions inherent to the capitalist production method nowadays, in a decolonial perspective. To make efforts to unveil the concrete reality of the environmental issue in the municipality of Goiás is a political act, contextualized in the critical production of knowledge, guided by the urgency of equalizing the needs of humanity, other species and the planet, in a process of overcoming anthropocentric logic. The objective of this study is to lay bare the hegemonic understanding of sustainable development today and how this concept is propagated, and then investigate whether the incorporation of social and environmental criteria, through specific policies in this municipality, can guarantee a configuration of sustainable development based on well live. The research is bibliographical with an essentially qualitative approach, as it answers particular questions regarding the concrete reality, since statistical procedures could not reach or represent the problematized complexity. From the perspective of decoloniality, the existence of a subaltern environmentalism is admitted, anchored in a set of practices, ethics and knowledge that, although oppressed, resist. The work is problematized as the essence of the social being, a basic condition for human life and the centrality of the humanity-nature metabolism. By way of conclusion, we have that, given the challenges imposed by capitalism and colonization, there are permanent attempts to combat neoconservative impositions and the emergence of a good life, even if truncated, in the city of Goiás. The confrontations with the damage caused by predatory productivism is not seen as a permanent solution to this conflict, but they keep the flame of resistance alive and point to the construction of a society interspersed with socio-environmental justice