Atingidos pelo Gasoduto Coari-Manaus: o (re) significado com o lugar

Abstract

The exploration of oil resources at Urucu‘s Oil Province occurs in one of the last areas which can be called ―environmental Eldorado‖ in the world, the Amazon rainforest Thus, the municipality of Coari-AM, in face of the oil-drilling activities, has been suffering since the decade of 1990 major environmental transformations, especially the riverside inhabitants of the Amazonian wetlands communities, which are located in the surroundings of the Stateowned corporation. The economic relevance of the Coari-Manaus gas pipeline is for the whole country is acknowledged, however the onus of this huge enterprise has been taken the local rural populations, in ways to compromise the possibilities of reproduction of their material and symbolical way of living, without bring any kind of real improvement to their life quality. The primary purpose of this research was to comprehend, by the Comunidade Esperança II riverside wetland‘s inhabitants, which are affected by the Coari-Manaus gas pipeline, how do they keep or (re)define their affective, existential and belonging relationships with such places. To do so, it was necessary to situate the exploration of hydrocarbons in the municipality of Coari face to the liquid modernity, and also to describe the modus vivendi of the local riverside wetlands inhabitants to finally understand the transformations of the habitus in their perception, which have revealed so many fear sceneries. Those sceneries represent to the riverside wetlands inhabitants the introduction of social-environmental dynamics in their lives as they had never experienced before. In this thesis, we have employed the phenomenological method and also the historic-dialectical materialism, which both act to provide sustainability to our research proposal. The research has also used two methodological paths: ethnography and perception. About the techniques, were applied semi-structured interviews, forms and iconographic survey. The results that were obtained with the application of the proposed methodology permits to conclude that although the environmental impacts, the riverside wetlands inhabitants have stablished a deep affective relation with the wetlands and all kind of habitats (land, water and forest) that were not totally corrupted by the hydrocarbon exploration activities.