Name: VINICIUS FRANCISCO MARCHESE
Publication date: 30/09/2024
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| CÁTIA ANTÔNIA DA SILVA | Examinador Externo |
| CLAUDIO LUIZ ZANOTELLI | Presidente |
| ENEIDA MARIA SOUZA MENDONCA | Examinador Interno |
| GICÉLIA MENDES DA SILVA | Examinador Externo |
| ROBERTO GARCIA SIMOES | Examinador Interno |
Summary: This Doctoral Thesis aims to analyze the development and the consequences of contemporary Brazilian territorial production, focusing on areas that present geographical differentials, which become targets of neo-extractivist encroachment, but are used and occupied by Traditional Peoples and Communities whose ways of life do not align with the modes of production that seek to
establish themselves there. For this purpose, we start from the hypothesis that the objective of State power is to support processes of expropriation of these territories and the consequent expulsion of those who previously inhabited them, preferably disguising all the risks and damages inflicted on the existence of these groups. Thus, drawing on approaches from the Foucauldian framework, based on observations by the French philosopher himself and other authors who have followed
and/or reworked his theoretical-conceptual construct, this research seeks to observe how neoliberal values align with neo-extractivist interests in an effort dedicated to promoting the non-existence of socio-environmental aspects so that politico-economic aspects may prevail. In this way, the possible development of a process/project of Territorial Production of (Non)Existence is analyzed through the observation of what has been happening with the artisanal fishing communities of Barra
do Riacho and Barra do Sahy, both neighboring and located in the Municipality of Aracruz, Espírito Santo, Brazil. Thus, the assumptions created in light of our hypothesis were put to the test, demonstrating that the future of artisanal fishing appears increasingly unpromising in the region, suggesting a more plausible non-existence for them, while the material and symbolic voids left in the territory are reappropriated by neo-extractivism in its pursuit of realizing a spatial rationality that seems to care little, or even go unpunished, for the harms caused.
