Banca de DEFESA: TADEU MATTOS FARIAS

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : TADEU MATTOS FARIAS
DATA : 07/04/2017
HORA: 08:00
LOCAL: Miniauditório do PPGAU/UFRN
TÍTULO:

Affectivity and resistance: attachment, socioenvironmental changes and capital-place opposition at the city of Galinhos-RN

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

affectivity; artisanal fishing; tourism; wind power; ethnography

PÁGINAS: 366
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Psicologia
RESUMO:

The city of Galinhos has gone through significant transformations in recent years. The

transition from a community organized by artisanal fishing to a tourism-driven one,

catalyzed by the impact of the expansion of a salt industry in the 1980s, and the

implementation of the Rei dos Ventos I wind farm in 2012 had important local impacts

and resistance movements by the population: fishermen manifestation due to saline

expansion; manifestation contrary to the presence of a tour boat of a tourism company

in 2010, and; manifestations contrary to the implementation of the wind farm on the

Capim‟s Dunes, an important place for local tourism. The objective of this study was to

investigate the relationship between residents‟ affective bonds with Galinhos and the

disputes concerning the local social and environmental transformations. As specific

objectives, I sought: (a) to identify the main socio-environmental transformations in

Galinhos and their impact on local ways of life; (b) to investigate residents‟ affections in

relation to such transformations and how these affects participate in the meaning

production about the place; (c) to understand how these meanings are mobilized in the

resistance movements due to socio-environmental transformations. I adopted an

ethnographic approach, living for three months at the place and counting on the

support of two local informants. I described these experiences in 21 field diaries. In

addition, I interviewed 23 residents, focusing on life stories. The corpus‟ analysis was

ontoepistemologically sustained by critical realism, and I used a multilevel analysis,

considering the extradiscursive and discursive levels articulated in the understanding

of the conflicts. The records in the diaries allowed a characterization of local dynamics,

highlighting important aspects of context in the day to day. In addition, I identified local

discourses that function as shared meanings, and help to organize local life. Using

Espinosa's category of affectivity as an extradiscursive ethical-political and immanent

element in the transition between ways of life, it was possible to understand: the

attachment to the place as constitutive of the artisanal fishing way of life; the expansion

of saline as a disarticulation of this way of life; tourism as an articulator of the new way

of life with its own meanings and practices, and maintaining and recovering aspects of

the fishing way of life; the implementation of the wind farm as a threat of rupture with

aspects of such a way of life. At the level of the discourses, to understand the

emergence of conflicts, I made a critical discourse analysis, understanding discourses

as action, but articulated to the extradiscursive level as its condition of possibility. It

was possible to note that the historical-social nature of the enterprises led to an

opposition between capital and place, which implied the identification of these

enterprises as invaders by the residents. The fact that tourism is made and controlled

by residents, supporting the sense that it is an activity that links them to the place,

together with local knowledge, helped to signify the tourist company and the wind farm

as threats to local life. The resistances to the actions of such companies had the

different ways‟ of life contents of attachment as organizers of both local consciousness

about such capital-place opposition and initiatives of contestation. I understand,

therefore, that the fundamental relations of these activities, when in contact with the

specificities of local relations and knowledge, have produced an opposition sustained by

the sense that they are companies that alienate the place, understood as part of their

lives, from people.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Externo à Instituição - ANDRÉS DI MASSO - UNIBARCELONA
Externo à Instituição - GUSTAVO MARTINELI MASSOLA - USP
Interno - 1205730 - ISABEL MARIA FARIAS FERNANDES DE OLIVEIRA
Presidente - 347107 - JOSE DE QUEIROZ PINHEIRO
Externo ao Programa - 2374871 - ZORAIDE SOUZA PESSOA