Biopolitics and environmental racism in Brazil: the environmental exclusion of the citizens

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Ivy de Souza Abreu
Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Espírito Santo

Abstract

This article aims to analyze thebiopolitics, its influence on the decisions of the sovereign power and its excluding face front to environmental issues. Therefore, it will be brought to the discussion the biopower and the biopolitics, the environmental racism with the exclusion of the citizens and the formation of the environmental groupsoutsidersand the problem of drought in northeastern Brazil. The management of life became deciding factor in modern and contemporany political systems, the concepts 'live and die' lets biomedical sciences and touches
on policy. The politicization of life is evident with environmental racism and the new categorical policy: established and outsiders, citizens and under citizens,
inclusion and exclusion.

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Abreu, I. de S. (2014). Biopolitics and environmental racism in Brazil: the environmental exclusion of the citizens. Opinión Jurídica, 12(24). Retrieved from https://revistas.udem.edu.co/index.php/opinion/article/view/723

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Ivy de Souza Abreu, Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Espírito Santo

Mestranda em Direitos e Garantias Fundamentais pela FDV; Bolsista da FAPES – Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Espírito
Santo; Membro do Grupo de Pesquisa 'Estado, Democracia Constitucional e Direitos Fundamentais' da FDV; Membro do BIOGEPE
– Grupo de Estudos, Pesquisa e Extensão em Políticas Públicas, Direito a Saúde e Bioética da FDV; MBA em Gestão Ambiental; Pós
Graduada em Direito Público; Licenciada em Ciências Biológicas; Advogada; Bióloga;