Territorialidades socioambientais em Teresópolis – RJ: movimentos sociais e transformações territoriais

Abstract

This thesis presents the concepts of political capital and social environmental territorialities and emphasizes the importance of social movements and political discussions in the territory of Paquequer river watershed in Teresópolis, State of Rio de Janeiro. We use the principles of ethnographic conflicts and verify the political capital level of social movements and how they can influence territorialities. Our theme is to analyse problematic political conflicts in the environmental area. Conflicts evolve social actors and natural resources represented and lived in the territory. We use participative observation to capture in a critical form political games manifested by social movements and public policy and their consequences in the territory. Main social problems in our watershed (deforestation, water pollution, erosion, landslides, silting of rivers, air pollution, inequalities and social conflicts) evolve cultural, economic, political public health and are related to modes of production (industrialization, real estate speculation, agrobusiness) and to the emergence of new territorialities. We develop our premise that, besides strong economic power of some groups, civil society, organized in social movements, slowly conquer political capital and force social environmental territorialities to occur.