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0233/2024 - Socio-environmental disaster and popular health surveillance: oil spill in fishing territories in Bahia
Desastre socioambiental e vigilância popular da saúde: derramamento de petróleo em territórios pesqueiros na Bahia

Author:

• Ana Angélica Martins da Trindade - da Trindade, A. A. M. - <angelica.ana@ufba.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9743-0212

Co-author(s):

• Tiala Santana Santos - Santos, T. S. - <tialasantos@ufba.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6847-0963
• Maria do Carmo Soares de Freitas - Freitas, M. C. S. - <carmofreitas@uol.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8310-0933
• Mônica Angelim Gomes de Lima - de Lima, M. A. G - <monicangelim@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3364-8439
• Luiza Monteiro Barros - Barros, L. M. - <lu.bia.barros@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5941-393X
• Marta Cristiane Ferreira dos Santos - Santos, M. C. F. - <martacfsantos@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2204-8019
• Rita de Cassia Lopes Gomes - Gomes, R. C. L. - <ritaglopes60@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8298-0836
• Verônica Moitinho Sena - Sena, V. M. - <fisioveronicasena@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0341-8333
• Paulo Gilvane Lopes Pena - Pena, P. G. L. - <pena@ufba.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9653-5509


Abstract:

Socio-environmental disasters occur cyclically in colonial contexts of neoliberal capitalism. People who work in artisanal fishing are directly affected and live with changes in their ways of life and work on a daily basis. In this study we seek to understand the main socio-environmental problems, and community actions, caused by the oil spill in Brazil in 2019, based on the version of artisanal fishermenBahia. This is a descriptive, analytical study with a qualitative approach, supported by a collaborative and non-extractive perspective. The results pointed to the following categories of analysis: i) socio-environmental problems and ii) community health and environmental actions: popular surveillance in the territories. It is noted that the arrival of oil in fishing communities caused racialized bodies and territorial bodies to become ill, intensifying fear, hunger, despair and racist practices. The daily life of losses was transformed into absences. However, community initiatives strengthened what can be considered decolonial attitudes of popular vigilance over health and the environment when facing the effects of the disaster, even in the face of government helplessness.

Keywords:

Petroleum Pollution, Work, Environmental Health Surveillance, Sociology, Medical

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da Trindade, A. A. M., Santos, T. S., Freitas, M. C. S., de Lima, M. A. G, Barros, L. M., Santos, M. C. F., Gomes, R. C. L., Sena, V. M., Pena, P. G. L.. Socio-environmental disaster and popular health surveillance: oil spill in fishing territories in Bahia. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2024/Jun). [Citado em 02/07/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/socioenvironmental-disaster-and-popular-health-surveillance-oil-spill-in-fishing-territories-in-bahia/19281



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