Traditional Population, Extractive Reserves and State Rationality in the Brazilian Amazon

Authors

  • José Bittencourt da Silva Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação (PPGED), Instituto de Ciências da Educação (ICED), Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
  • Ligia Terezinha Lopes Simonian Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento Sustentável no Trópico Úmido (PPGDSTU), Programa de Pós-Graduação de Gestão Pública (PPGPG), Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v33i0.36473

Keywords:

traditional population, Extractive Reserves, state rationality

Abstract

Amazone traditional populations – particularly those living in Forestry Extractive Reserves (RESEX) – have a historical and value connection with the system called "sistema de aviamento". Such populations face a structural dilema that need to be surmounted: to destroy the practical and axiological impediments inherited from the ambience of the "barracao" and  learn the complex task to move  within the rational and legal arquiteture of the Brazilian State. When based on legally institutionalysed processes, such new reality imposes agents of this field of knowledge sphere and argumentation capacity (empowerment) an objectivation of peculiar demands as, for example, land security and a natural ecossystem protection. The purpose of this paper is to reveal such dilema of extrative populations who live in  in the RESEX in the Amazon, to analyse its nuances and to offer ideas  to surmount such reality. This work can be deemed as a critique to state formalism, that has contributed to the domination by public agents of Conservation Units and envolved individuals in such territories. In order to achieve the proposed goal, we made a reserach on theoryc fundamentation in virtual and physical libraries, as well as in the personal files of authors. What follow are analysis of the main objective, based on the studied books and works.

Author Biographies

José Bittencourt da Silva, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação (PPGED), Instituto de Ciências da Educação (ICED), Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação (PPGED), Instituto de Ciências da Educação (ICED), Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)

Ligia Terezinha Lopes Simonian, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento Sustentável no Trópico Úmido (PPGDSTU), Programa de Pós-Graduação de Gestão Pública (PPGPG), Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento Sustentável no Trópico Úmido (PPGDSTU), Programa de Pós-Graduação de Gestão Pública (PPGPG), Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)

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Published

2015-04-27

How to Cite

da Silva, J. B., & Simonian, L. T. L. (2015). Traditional Population, Extractive Reserves and State Rationality in the Brazilian Amazon. Desenvolvimento E Meio Ambiente, 33. https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v33i0.36473

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Vol. 33 (2015)

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