Right Turn! Local Media and Environmental Necropolitics in Sorocaba

Abstract

This article addresses media and environmental issues in Sorocaba, focusing on the river of the same name that runs through the city from south to north. Our objective is to analyze the current situation of environmental policies, given that over the past four years, due to the negligence of the municipality's conservative policies, the river is once again considered polluted. The methodology involves an examination of local media and its positions, whether complicit or not, with public authorities and the decisions regarding the management of the environmental heritage, constituting an environmental necropolitics where the relationship between political power and environmental degradation is also supported by the local conservative media, affecting different social groups and communities.