DE SOUZA ABREU, Ivy. Biopolitics and environmental racism in Brazil: the environmental exclusion of the citizens. []. , 12, 24, pp.87-99. ISSN 1692-2530.

This article aims to analyze thebiopolitics, its influence on the decisions of the sovereign power and its excluding face front to environmental issues. Therefore, it will be brought to the discussion the biopower and the biopolitics, the environmental racism with the exclusion of the citizens and the formation of the environmental groupsoutsidersand the problem of drought in northeastern Brazil.The management of life became deciding factor in modern and contemporany political systems, the concepts ''live and die'' lets biomedical sciences and touches on policy. The politicization of life is evident with environmental racism and the new categorical policy: established and outsiders, citizens and under citizens, inclusion and exclusion.

: Biopolitics; environmental racism; exclusion.

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