"WHAT ABOUT THE HUMAN SPECIES?" TRAJECTORIES OF RESISTANCE IN THE MÃE GRANDE DE CURUÇÁ EXTRACTIVE RESERVE IN PARÁ

Abstract

The trajectories of resistance in the Mãe Grande Extractive Reserve in the municipality of Curuçá are centered on conflicting discourses of 3 different interlocutors. This article is the result of a set of ethnographic researches carried out in the second half of last year, and had as its main objective to investigate the project "mothers of the mangrove", two women shellfish gatherers and a fisherman were interviewed in the municipality of Curuçá. Part of the title of this work explains a concern of the users of the Resexs "and the human species?", this statement was made by one of the interviewees of the research who reported that the entry and exit of development agencies and universities are directed to biological research and with a focus on the marine biodiversity of the mangroves. However, no attention is paid to the residents and extractivists who survive on the natural resources of these territories. As a theoretical lens, the concept of (re)patriarchalization of the territory developed by Ecuadorian authors was used. The definition translates the intertwined modalities of violence that are related to the expansion of capital in socio-environmental areas protected by the State.