UMA IMAGINAÇÃO SOCIOLÓGICA DO LIVRO TRAGÉDIA EM MARIANA – SERRA CRISTINA

Abstract

The journalistic book published in 2018 by journalist and writer Cristina Serra, about the disaster caused by the collapse of the Fundão dam on November 5, 2015 in Minas Gerais. The book, rich in details from a writer who covered the disaster as a journalist at the time of the events, contains a compilation of investigative journalism with touches of a sociological study, Interviews with the main actors of the post-collapse and with ordinary people from the affected communities give the book a wealth of detail sufficient to carry out an analysis based on the concept of the sociological imagination here. This imagination led to a look based on the history of exploration of natural resources in the region, a history that allows a new reflection on the causes of the disaster. In this new approach, it is possible to see that the causes of the disaster reported in Cristina Serra's book are not the source per se, but rather culminated in the climax of a set of causes initiated in colonial Brazil, perpetuated and adapted through the centuries, which in the year of 2013 caused the biggest environmental disaster in Brazil.