Baía de Guanabara e conflitos socioambientais: complexidade, caos e contradições

Abstract

Social-environmental conflict analysis presumes room involving natural science and social science, whiting should incorporate the distinct dynamics in the social world and the biophysics world. The Guanabara Bay ecosystem represents this dynamic and interdependent relationship between the biophysical and the social. The socio-environmental conflicts regarding this ecosystem reflect the contraposition of the capitalist domination logic and the social reproduction projects of different social groups. Thus, it involves many group disputations with different social positions, and ecological and social inter-relationship modes, leading to tense relations and conflicting interests. In this context, this thesis conducted a survey in the Guanabara Bay space and the conflicts of natural elements usage, including its analysis and categorization. For the social- environment conflicts research, three methodological approaches were used: bibliographic assessment, questionnaire application and participatory mapping. Through the results, we suggested debates and discussions aiming to analyse the relationship between the conflicts and the structuring base that lead to its outbreaks in Guanabara Bay. Were highlight the traditional fishermen of Guanabara Bay who live in and of the bay - as they are affected by various activities, and the petrochemical industry - as it impacts a range of activities and represents the hegemonic way of appropriation of the capital with the State’s support. Often, this support comes from society’s base structure, such as public policy and economic models. In this scenario, the complexity, the chaos and the contradictions of Guanabara Bay were raised, being other possible futures of this utopic thought brought into debate.