Afetividade e resistência: vínculo, transformações socioambientais e oposição capital-lugar na cidade de Galinhos-RN
The city of Galinhos has gone through significant transformations in recent years. The transition from a community organized by artisanal fishing to a tourism-driven one, catalyzed by the impact of the expansion of a salt industry in the 1980s, and the implementation of the Rei dos Ventos I wind...
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| Resumo: | The city of Galinhos has gone through significant transformations in recent years. The
transition from a community organized by artisanal fishing to a tourism-driven one, catalyzed
by the impact of the expansion of a salt industry in the 1980s, and the implementation of the
Rei dos Ventos I wind farm in 2012 had important local impacts and resistance movements by
the population: fishermen manifestation due to saline expansion; manifestation contrary to the
presence of a tour boat of a tourism company in 2010, and; manifestations contrary to the
implementation of the wind farm on the Capim’s Dunes, an important place for local tourism.
The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between residents’ affective
bonds with Galinhos and the disputes concerning the local social and environmental
transformations. As specific objectives, I sought: (a) to identify the main socio-environmental
transformations in Galinhos and their impact on local ways of life; (b) to investigate residents’
affections in relation to such transformations and how these affects participate in the meaning
production about the place; (c) to understand how these meanings are mobilized in the
resistance movements due to socio-environmental transformations. I adopted an ethnographic
approach, living for three months at the place and counting on the support of two local
informants. I described these experiences in 21 field diaries. In addition, I interviewed 23
residents, focusing on life stories. The corpus’ analysis was ontoepistemologically sustained
by critical realism, and I used a multilevel analysis, considering the extradiscursive and
discursive levels articulated in the understanding of the conflicts. The records in the diaries
allowed a characterization of local dynamics, highlighting important aspects of context in the
day to day. In addition, I identified local discourses that function as shared meanings, and
help to organize local life. Using Espinosa's category of affectivity as an extradiscursive
ethical-political and immanent element in the transition between ways of life, it was possible
to understand: the attachment to the place as constitutive of the artisanal fishing way of life;
the expansion of saline as a disarticulation of this way of life; tourism as an articulator of the
new way of life with its own meanings and practices, and maintaining and recovering aspects
of the fishing way of life; the implementation of the wind farm as a threat of rupture with
aspects of such a way of life. At the level of the discourses, to understand the emergence of
conflicts, I made a critical discourse analysis, understanding discourses as action, but
articulated to the extradiscursive level as its condition of possibility. It was possible to note
that the historical-social nature of the enterprises led to an opposition between capital and
place, which implied the identification of these enterprises as invaders by the residents. The
fact that tourism is made and controlled by residents, supporting the sense that it is an activity
that links them to the place, together with local knowledge, helped to signify the tourist
company and the wind farm as threats to local life. The resistances to the actions of such
companies had the different ways’ of life contents of attachment as organizers of both local
consciousness about such capital-place opposition and initiatives of contestation. I
understand, therefore, that the fundamental relations of these activities, when in contact with
the specificities of local relations and knowledge, have produced an opposition sustained by
the sense that they are companies that alienate the place, understood as part of their lives,
from people. |
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