Social participation in the Arraial do Cabo Marine Extractive Reserve: an analysis of management tools from a perspective of decoloniality

Abstract

The present proposal seeks an analysis of the dynamics of social participation in Conservation Units of Sustainable Use. In order to do so, it explores the response of the social movement of the rubber-tree to the threats of Developmentalism between the 1970s and 1980s, to the appropriation of this legacy by agents such as the tate and the market. A critical study is suggested in the light of the theoretical efforts that cover decolonial thinking, intersecting a perspective that understands social processes from the resistance of social movements on the one hand, and from the appropriation of their proposals on the other.. In this way, what was built as a struggle for recognition of a specific form of relationship with the territory, a development model based on the organization of a local economy, directly associated with a specific way of doing, living and creating "from the South has become a public policy, a marine protected area, with institutional spaces that imprison the possibility of the emancipatory proposal contained in the statements of the rubbertapper movement. The Arraial do Cabo Marine Extractive Reserve, created in 1997, provides an overview of the implementation of this public policy in a marine territory, where social, cultural, economic and political processes are updated. The focus on the so-called management instruments, such as the Deliberative Council, the Concession of the Real Right of Use, the Plan of Use, the Management Agreement, will constitute a theoretical-practical dialogue that stems from the communication of the resistance of fishermen to initiatives of guardianship by the state and other agents, bringing to light the perception of these subjects in the current arenas of decision instituted by legal force.