ENVIRONMENTAL AND LITERARY JOURNALISM: ACTIVISMS, SUBJECTIVITIES AND TERRITORIALITIES IN NARRATIVES IN SUMAÚMA
Name: ANA CAROLINA POLEZE MESSIAS
Publication date: 22/09/2025
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ILZA MARIA TOURINHO GIRARDI | Examinador Externo |
| RAFAEL DA SILVA PAES HENRIQUES | Examinador Interno |
| RUTH DE CASSIA DOS REIS | Presidente |
Summary: This paper studies the connections between
environmental journalism and literary journalism, using as reference the
independent environmental journalism platform Sumaúma, passing through
discussions about objectivity, subjectivity, and activism. We understand
environmental journalism as an activist and engaged practice in defense of
the environment (Girard, Loose, and Steigleder, 2021), being a journalism of
subjectivities (Moraes, 2019). Literary journalism, on the other hand,
features extended reporting, a diversity of sources, and perspectives (Pena,
2007; Lima, 2010), which are elements that help build the activist discourse
when combined with environmental journalism. The territorialities present in
Sumaúma will be portrayed from the understanding of symbolic territory by
Haesbaert (2004; 2005) and Santos (2001; 2006; 2007). Following the
definitions of apparatus according to Foucault (1999) and Agamben (2009), we
conducted the analysis of the reports with the method of narratology by Motta
(2013) to understand if the argumentative devices used in Sumaúma are forms
of activism and how they are constituted in the discourse.
