Between Social Footprint and Compliance, or “What IBAMA Wants”: Equinor Brazil’s Social Sustainability Policy

In June 2018, a group of around twenty women gathered at a handicraft and agricultural fair in Campos dos Goytacazes, a northern coastal oil-hub city in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The women were selling cakes and meat pies, straw mats, embroidered tablecloths and kitchen towels, figurines made of seashells, and other products typical of regional handicraft traditions. While other stalls at the fair identified the vendors as belonging to an agricultural cooperative or a quilombo (protected communities descending from African slaves), the women found shade under a somewhat differently decorated party tent, one bearing the logo of