Belo Monte Dam: Social Movements, Law and State Repression
A study of the decades-long resistance to Brazil's Belo Monte dam, read through the framework of legal mobilization: law not as neutral protection but as a "contested terrain" on which social movements build oppositional consciousness, and on which the state and elite power-holders maneuver around their own legal obligations.
↓ Read the full paper (PDF)Cite asMacLeod, Jason D. "Belo Monte Dam: Social Movements, Law and State Repression." Critical Legal Theory · case study · Pará, Brazil. Available at https://www.jasondmacleod.com/writing/belo-monte-social-movements/