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When I visited Altamira and Belém in May 2012, the social movement against Belo Monte stood at a crossroad. The construction of the Belo Monte Dam was starting to take shape, workers were occupying the construction site demanding the improvement of working conditions, and the social movement was facing criminalization and legal charges for alleged instigation of the workforce and interference in the construction. However, the obvious challenges that the social movement was facing at that time turned out to be only the tip of the iceberg.
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Peters, I. (2018). From Cohesion to Fragmentation: The Social Movement against Belo Monte. In: Cohesion and Fragmentation in Social Movements . Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19326-3_5
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