Conflitos e territorialidades resistentes em comunidades tradicionais na zona costeira cearense

Abstract

The goal of this thesis is to understand the reconfiguration of space in the coastal zone of Ceará in the light of the socio-environmental conflicts that are established in the face of multiple forms of appropriation of natural and territorial resources in the region. The qualitative research was the chosen path for microprocesses analysis to identify the territorialities which emerge from the action of traditional communities in the face of socio-environmental conflicts. The field research was carried out in the community of Caetanos de Cima, which integrates the Sabiaguaba settlement, located in the municipality of Amontada / CE, because it presents the peculiarity of the settlement being located in the coastal zone of Ceará, configuring a socio-spatial conformation based on the interface between land and sea, between agricultural and maritime activities. Added to this, the history of resistance and struggle for land ownership and demarcation, which marks the daily life of the community. Based on these choices, the thesis draws an overview of the diversity of territorial uses and appropriations in progress in the coastal zone of Ceará. Next, it seeks to identify which are the social subjects involved in the socio-environmental conflicts, their interests, their strategies, convergences and divergences; and organizes a picture of the main socio-environmental conflicts in the coastal zone of Ceará, which shows the types of conflict in progress and the resistance actions that have been built by the traditional coastal communities. Finally, the community of Caetanos de Cima is presented, starting from the struggle for land and territory and the territorialities wich resist and affirm the sustainable way of life with which the community deals with the management of resources of common use.