Think & Drink Colloquium

Protests against global supply chains have become key arenas in which social inequality, environmental harm, and state security practices intersect. While corporations frame resilience as maintaining efficient production, marginalized groups—especially Indigenous peoples and rural workers—experience resilience as coping with displacement, precarious labor, and ecological degradation. In this context, protest becomes a crucial means of collective resistance.
This presentation examines how protests in Brazil and Germany emerge around extractive industries and how police respond to them. It highlights how law enforcement agencies—often aligned with corporate interests—shape, restrict, or criminalize mobilizations, thereby influencing the resilience of social movements. By comparing both countries, the talk shows how protest policing can undermine or strengthen movements challenging exploitation within global supply chains.

Held by: 
Daniela Hunold (金贝棋牌 für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin)