Identificação e diagnóstico de tensões e/ou conflitos no município de Colares

Abstract

As Brabo (1981), Hartmann (1989) and Furtado (1993) elucidate, these alterations are the result of changes in production relations, technological innovations in the area of transport (road network), and the increase in demand for the product in Amazonian urban centers. This work is part of the Project Alternative Management of Conflicts - MAC, coordinated by Dr. Lourdes Furtado, part of the RENAS Phase III Project, which aims to identify, characterize and direct solutions to socio-environmental conflicts, within which this work plan is inserted. Thus, integrating it, the present study aimed to identify foci of tension and conflicts around the appropriation of natural resources, especially fisheries from artisanal fishing, where we seek to describe the productive systems and the way of life of the community. To do so, we developed an interdisciplinary base trying to find points of convergence between Anthropology and Geography, where authors such as Gurr (1989), Dahcndorf (1986), Fiúzan de Melo (1993), Furtado (1993,1995) and Fraxe (2001) allowed us to observe the existing relations between traditional fishing populations and the production of their space, since the question of space is involved in the issues of conflicts in fishing communities. Ethnography was also our appetizer, through the techniques of formal and informal interviews, photographic records and historical data collection, which together with the bibliographic research enabled the socioeconomic survey of the municipality. Thus, we can systematize the results obtained with a) the characterization of the municipality of Colares as a fishing area, not only because of its geographic location (being a transition area between the estuary and the coast) but also because its economy is focused on fishing as its main activity, besides its fishing tradition; b) tensions and conflicts occur around the appropriation of natural resources to the extent that social actors begin to dispute fishing and commercialization territories, since interests do not converge. This context has led fishermen and communities to seek alternatives to preserve the activity and their own reproduction as a social group, attesting to the capacity of local communities to manage their resources.