@article{Ferraz da Costa Duarte_2019, title={The threat comes from the protector itself: the action of the State in contexts of extraction and environmental conflict in Minas Gerais, Brasil}, volume={4}, url={https://revista.religacion.com/index.php/religacion/article/view/541}, abstractNote={<p class="p1">The present work, based on a critique of modernity and the exercise of state power, that is still based on exploitation, domination and colonization, aims to analyze the two facets of the State: at the same time it serves as an instrument of protection, it comes as a fundamental actor for the legitimation and permission of the implantation of extractive projects. The project of mining Minas-Rio, in the Serra do Espinhaço region of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is quite representative of this ambiguous State figure. In this regard, I will analyze the socio-environmental transformations caused by the mining and some reflections of the logic that sustains the environmental licenses of the project.</p&gt;}, number={22}, journal={Religación}, author={Ferraz da Costa Duarte, Lívia}, year={2019}, month={Dec.}, pages={13-20} }