On processes of conflict "environmentalization" and its participatory dilemmas

Abstract

This article deals with the environmentalization of social conflicts underlying the construction of a new social question, a new public issue. Like other analogous processes, the historical process of environmentalization implies changes both in the State and in the behavior of people at work, in their daily lives and leisure. Such processes are analyzed in order to frame the environmental issue as a new source of legitimatization and argumentation in conflicts.

Keywords

• ambientalização
• condições de vida
• conflitos sociais
• risco