The objective of this dissertation is to analyze the socio-spatial reproduction of riverine people from the islands region of Abaetetuba, based on their genre of life, in the face of recent transformations in the last three decades in the region, resulting from the process of modernization and integration of the Amazon in the logic of global capitalism. The notion of the genre of life was born in the classical geography and was coined by authors such as Herder and La Blache and it corresponds generally to a set of tangible and intangible practices by which a group is able to use the resources of your physical environment for their reproduction socio-spatial. Despite this notion has a big epistemological importance for geography, it was left to forgetfulness due to prejudices arbitrary. We assume that the notion of genre of life can be worked with rural communities in the underdeveloped world, as is the case of the Amazon riverine, enabling the understanding of the processes by which they reproduce spatially. In this region, the relationship between society and the environment has always constituted the main element in the process of production of space. This relationship with the environment contributed to the development of a genre of life peculiar of the Amazon riverine. However, the Amazon region has experienced in recent years by changes that are political, economic, social and geographical and they involve the city Abaetetuba and its Islands region and they are connected directly to a process of full insertion of the Amazon in a capitalist logic the production as the model of globalized world. In this sense, the riverine people’s genre of life has been a constant target of the changes resulting from this process. Therefore, there is an important variable in this discussion concerning the relationship between the current social transformation in the region and the socio-spatial reproduction of the riverine people from the islands region of Abaetetuba, especially with regard to their genre of life. We observed that there is a dialectical relationship between the socio-spatial reproduction of riverine from Abaetetuba, which materializes in a place through their genre of life, and forms of production social and spatial connected to the logic of global capitalism. However, this relationship is not only submission and/or destructive, but it is also of resistance and reproduction of the genre of life of the riverine from the islands region of Abaetetuba.
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