Dr. Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos books Memória Seletiva looks at Brazil at the end of the economic growth cycle fuelled by commodity exports (2002-2013). Her prism is the places where these exported materials are produced. While national prosperity is gained from mineral extraction, there is also a cycle of evictions, environmental disasters and pollution. When wealth and poverty, business and unemployment, mining and exclusion, live side by side for centuries, the result is a conflict that is narrated by the author in the tangible and intangible history of the city of Ouro Preto.
