O Plano Popular do Reassentamento Coletivo de Gesteira: Não é inútil revoltar-se – resistência e contraconduta em defesa do território

Abstract

This article discusses the role of the Gesteira community, a village in Barra Longa, Minas Gerais (MG), in the collective resettlement process to which it was subjected as a result of the Fundão dam collapse in 2015, which was the responsibility of the mining companies Samarco, Vale, and BHP Billiton, in the municipality of Mariana (MG). In this sense, the objective of this work is to identify the singular aspects of the struggle waged by this community to become a protagonist in this process, based on the notions of resistance and counter-conduct as explained by Michel Foucault. That is, we start from the notion of counter-conduct developed as a possibility of saying no to a certain way of conducting conduct, of saying no to a certain form of government, making explicit the way in which one wants to be governed as a possibility of acting as an agent of one's own subjectivation. This research was developed using the cartographic method, based on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, according to which theory and practice feed back into each other, so that knowledge is produced from engagement with the territory. The territory of a community that, throughout more than ten years of struggle, has shown in its history, as we will conclude, that it is not useless to revolt.