ABSTRACT
The installation of a big mining project transformed the social and environmental dynamics in the region around Conceição do Mato Dentro, Minas Gerais. The new enterprise "dislocated" the historical relations between individuals, communities and territories. From an ethnographic research orientation we have analyzed how young people subjectivate themselves when facing displacement caused in the region. The forms of subjectivization are established on the articulation between the objective changes and ways of interpretation of this process. While young people complain about the project due to various social and environmental problems, they recognize that the presence of mining has generated an increase in income and job opportunities, in addition to the promise of development. The words of young people show us how they are subjects that reflect and take decisions about the ongoing conflicts in the region.
Keywords:
youth; subjectivization; conflict; mining; environment