Traditional community of small-scale fshermen and fsherwomen from the Superagüi Island:
Journal Title: Revista de Estudios Marítimos y Sociales - Year 2010, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Traditional community of small-scale fshermen and fsherwomen in the Superagüi Island; challenges in the face of contradictory public policiesThe expansion of capitalism over the past decades–which took place under the models of neoliberalism at frst and neo-developmentalism later–has been consolidated in Brazil through contradictory public policies combined in the three levels of Brazilian governmental structure (federal, state or local governments). Such policies include nature conservation measures, as well as those related to acknowledging ethnical territories and identities. Focusing on the inhabitants of the Superagüi Island (Guaraqueçaba, Paraná State, Brazil), this study aims at analyzing the conflicts and resistances emerging from the implementation of public policies creating natural reserves and acknowledging the rights of certain groups to their long-occupied territories. The main players in this case are small-scale fshermen and fsherwomen who want to be recognized as a traditional community of the island; industrial fshermen; tourists; the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA); the Paraná Environmental Institute (IAP); and various nongovernmental organizations. The conflicts and resistances arise from questionable and contradictory policies which, among other things, seek to preserve nature with no human presence, bringing about serious problems of poverty and inequality. Other policies, however, generate possibilities for the community to (re)organize themselves, re-establishing bounds of solidarity and autonomy. These contradictory relations established in the territory occupied by small-scale fshermen and fsherwomen in the Superagüi Island support the hypothesis of a contradictory and unequal capitalism with an inherently destructive nature.
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Mercedes Solá Pérez, Jorge Montenegro
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