CULTURE OF BELONGING COMMUNITIES VICTIMS OF FIRES IN RORAIMA

Abstract

This research analyzes journalistic representation of the socio-environmental crisis in Roraima, focusing on forest fires. The study aims to demonstrate that media discourse constitutes a field of disputed rationalities regarding the relationship between society and nature, and not merely a neutral register. The methodology used was discourse analysis, applied to two reports, based on the theories of Enrique Leff (2009), Homi Bhabha (1998), and Terry Eagleton (2003). The results show that journalism broke with a traditional tradition of sources, giving prominence to indigenous and community voices. This strategy highlights the clash between instrumental rationality, which reduces nature to capital, and environmental rationality, which understands it as the basis of life.