Dominant global scheme of the discourse on risk management of mining disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Urgency of a decolonial analysis

Abstract

The research proposal aims to position an initial debate about the dominant discursive offers around the risk management of mining disasters, within the geographic and sociocultural context of Latin America and the Caribbean. Through the analectic method (Dussel, 2011; Kush, 2007; Scannone, 2009) it was possible, firstly, to identify the global structures of the discourse on mining activity and its risks and, secondly, to transcend the totality of the hegemonic paradigms for the interpretation of mining and the management of its risks in the region, already suggesting circumscribing the discussion of the subject, in a primary phase and open to future research, within the framework of existential and historical understanding that corresponds to everyday life Latin American and Caribbean dialectic. Preliminarily, it is concluded that an indigenous analytical test exercise is urgent in the region on triangulation between mining, risk management and adaptation to climate change, with a view to better territorial development planning, as well as an evaluation more realistic of the much questioned image of sustainability of the extractive industry bet by the big mining corporations.