Terras, florestas e águas de trabalho na Ilha do Careiro (Amazonas, Brasil): território, governança isomórfica e gestão cibernética camponesa

Abstract

Understanding governance in rural communities in the state of Amazonas requires interdisciplinary knowledge, since understanding the network of political articulation involves a constellation of knowledge. Despite the existence of many works related to this theme, there is a presumed state apriorism in the representation of the network of political articulation, which leads to an exacerbated role of the State in the face of other forms of social organization. In this sense, the objective of this work was to analyze environmental governance in the communities of São Francisco and São José do Botafogo, located on Careiro da Várzea Island. In order to achieve this, a number of methodological tools were used, such as forms and open interviews. In addition, the Venn Diagram of Agriculture, Fisheries and Vegetable Extraction were constructed in both communities. The Matrix F.O.F.A. and the Crop Matrix were also used, aiming to expand the process of exploration and research of the real. It can be inferred, after analyzing the data, that the governance existing in the communities studied is an isomorphic governance, based on the correspondence between land, forests and working water. The material expression of this network of political articulation is cybernetic management, which reuses exergy through neguentropic productive processes. Conservation strategies and human adaptation are guided by riverside environmental knowledge, which establishes specific ways of exploiting natural resources, centered on respect for ecosystem resilience and maintenance of the autopoiesis of the Varzean environmental system. Isomorphic governance and cybernetic management were concepts created after a long process of systematization and data analysis, configured in the process of intellectual craftsmanship of this thesis.