Política e territorialidade: as transformações sociais com a criação dos Projetos de Assentamento Agroextrativista em Humaitá - AM

Abstract

This research aims to reflect on the social changes since the creation of the Settlement Projects Agroextrativista (PAE) in Humaitá (AM), the Madeira River. The study area of our empirical investigation has been called in Anthony Lake, a place made up of eight communities that are part of the SAP in San Joaquin Humaitá. We aim to understand how this new mode of settlement, considered sustainable by government agencies and ONGs, are understood by the so-called "traditional communities". Accordingly, we find that these different models of settlements can be characterized as an attempt to command and control to mitigate the environmental problems caused mainly by the production of soybeans, the exploitation of illegal timber, the land grabbing and deforestation in the areas of fields and savannas in this border region. Also drew our attention, the rationality of the communities of Anthony Lake on collective actions and a positive reciprocity between the families of the eight communities of Anthony Lake. Opposite situation of development policies, which underpin the rules for individual access to natural resources, as the model of the plots of the settlements. In sum, we conclude that the formulation of government policies, in the case of such types of settlement, has promoted sustainable development in the region that seeks a certain disciplining of land use, based on the commodification of natural assets.