A construção da narrativa criada pela mídia hegemônica em contexto de desastre sobre a cidade de Brumadinho (2019-2022)

Abstract

On January 25, 2019, at 12:28 pm, the socio-technological disaster-crime of the rupture of the Vale S.A dam in Brumadinho, metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, caused a huge socio-environmental impact in the region, in addition to 272 fatalities. The general objective of this work is to understand the narrative created by the hegemonic media in the context of a disaster on the city of Brumadinho in the period from 2019 to 2022. The work started from the following problem: After the disaster, the image of Brumadinho started to bring discomfort to the affected population, provoking a revictimization of the damage caused by the collapse, as the city started to be stigmatized as the “city that was destroyed by the mud”, or the “contaminated city”. The corpus of this work consisted of news published in the media from January 25, 2019 to January 30, 2022. For the analysis, Content Analysis (CA) was used from the perspective of Bardin (2011). The analysis of the corpus revealed that the narratives constructed by the hegemonic media in disaster situations in this period show the image of death, destruction and suffering on the city of Brumadinho, as well as contributing to the process of naturalization of the tragedy as an unpredictable phenomenon, making it difficult to understand of Vale's socio technological disaster-crime, as a result of a historical process of the capitalist mining model.