This thesis researches the fisher(wo)men’s agency facing the socio-environmental
impacts of the construction of the PA-458 highway and the geographic changes of
the erosion process and advance of the sea on the Ajuruteua’s island. According on
the official documents, newspapers, photographies, thesis, dissertations, oral
speeches were analysed the actions of residentes (dwellers) fishermen and
fisherwomen in relation (face) to the changes caused by the highway and the threats
to their ways of life. As a result, we can say that fisher(wo)men, instead of the
commom sense usually said (would say), are aware of the transformations of their
time and nature, they produce/create adaptation strategies, atualyzing (updating)
their ecological knwoledge, they accept or not the inovation of “modernity” according
to their business (interests), they create complex relationships with the society
around and with nature, they participate in trade network that are not always
efficiency, they apropriate laws and languages outside their cultural universe and
organize themselves politically to protect their territory and their ways of life
according to current legislation.
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