Territorial impacts of the Vale S/A mega project of coal mining in Moatize, Province of Tete- Mozambique.

• Grant number: 17/08847-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: August 01, 2017
• End date: September 30, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Bernardo Mançano Fernandes
• Grantee: Guilherme Magon Whitacker
• Host Institution: Instituto de Políticas Públicas e Relações Internacionais (IPPRI). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project consists of studying the territorial impacts of Vale S/A megaproject of coal extraction in Moatize, province of Tete - Mozambique. We will analyze this reality through the theoretical reference on extractive policies or neo-extractivism, in contrast to the concept of sustainable development of VALE S/A and from the conceptual debate with other concepts such as territory, sustainable development and conflicts, resulting from disputes over ownership and control of territories and natural resources. And in this context, we want to understand the process of territorial differentiation produced by the peasant deterritorialization promoted by Vale S/A.