Banca de DEFESA: MIRIAM MOURA VITAL

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MIRIAM MOURA VITAL
DATE: 19/12/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: google meet
TITLE:

SOCIOTERRITORIAL RESISTANCES IN A TRADITIONAL FISHING COMMUNITY: THE TIDES OF CONFLICTS AND DISPUTES IN ENXU QUEIMADO/ RN

KEY WORDS:

territorial resistance, socio-territorial conflicts. traditional fishing community. socio-territorial movements. Enxu Queimado.

PAGES: 180
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Planejamento Urbano e Regional
SUMMARY:

The traditional fishing community of Enxu Queimado is located in Pedra Grande, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte (RN). It is a community of socio-environmental and socio-economic importance to the municipality, which has been using and occupying the territory for over 100 years, where they (re)produce their social, material and immaterial ways of life. In mid-2007, in an attempt to confront the advance of speculative real estate capital, some residents organized themselves into a committee, seeking partnerships to stop attempts at deterritorialization. In 2014, renewable energy arrived in the territory, with wind energy towers being installed around almost the entire community.  In 2020, real estate companies again tried to evict the families, claiming that the land belonged to them. In 2022, they began to face the possibility of installing offshore companies in the sea, which has caused many conflicts at the time of writing this dissertation. The starting question is: how has the traditional fishing community of Enxu Queimado organized itself to resist the imminent process of deterritorialization it has been suffering? In an attempt to answer this question, this research aimed to analyze the actions of socio-territorial movements to organize and maintain the traditional fishing territory of Enxu Queimado. Understanding that these individuals have the territory as an essential asset for their existence, since the actions only exist because the community claims the territory. To this end, the methodological procedures used in this study were quantitative and qualitative, with bibliographic and documentary research and information on websites and blogs, as well as quantitative data from official databases of the Brazilian electricity sector, such as the Generation Information System of the National Electric Energy Agency (SIGA) and the Georeferenced Information System of the Electricity Sector (SIGEL), as well as fieldwork with participant observation at meetings and collective actions, and semi-structured interviews with participants in the movements, representatives of the fishermen's colony (Z-32), partners identified during the field research and with the local government. In order to analyze the data, we took into account the narratives of the movements and the other people involved in the conflicts in order to understand the strategies developed to maintain their territoriality. In this way, it was possible to see that the organization of women in the management committee, as well as the resistance exerted by the residents of Enxu Queimado, points to the contestation of a globalized and capitalist development model, which does not relate to the way of life, culture and customs of the traditional community, because it is not operating under the structure of the logic of exploitation of surplus value and/or the search for profit maximization. This shows that the process of organization, struggle and resistance of traditional peoples is a powerful tool for countering this ongoing hegemonic model, which has found a lucrative market in the exploitation of nature. However, development involves multidimensional aspects and requires better living conditions for all.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1715135 - JOANA TEREZA VAZ DE MOURA
Interna - 3180158 - WINIFRED KNOX
Externo à Instituição - JOSÉ SOBREIRO FILHO - UnB
Externa à Instituição - LORENA IZÁ PEREIRA - UNESP