Saber fazer e poder fazer construção social e política da RESEX Caeté-Taperaçu

Abstract

This study presents a research on the social and political construction of RESEX of CaetéTaperaçu in northeastern Pará, analyzing he conflicts in this scenario and focusing on relations of power and identification. To do so, it is necessary to understand how was developed the movement for the creation of extractive reserves in Brazil, as well as the path of creation of the Marine Extractive Reserve Caeté-Taperaçu, through the eyes of some of the actors involved in this process. It was observed that the RESEX Caeté-Taperaçu is object of different representations, which depend on the involvement of its members and the space in which they develop their knowledge and practices. I define RESEX Caeté-Taperaçu as represented in two “worlds”: the first turns to the social and political relations, internal and external, manifest in the administrative center of RESEX directly connected to the Association of members of the Marine Extractive Reserve Caeté-Taperaçu- ASSUREMACATA, where users who attend are involved in administrative, bureaucratic and political processes. The other “world” turns to the relationship with the natural environment, with the territory and work practices: in this, the users do not attend meetings at the headquarters of ASSUREMACATA and have a different relationship with the environment, one way to preserve nature through their daily practices without using any instrument of management by the Association of users of RESEX. These users do not identify with the form of social organization of an extractive reserve.