Lugar de mulher é na pesca: o olhar de uma marisqueira em Farol de São Thomé, Campos dos Goytacazes, a partir do PEA Pescarte

Abstract

This study search to understand about the occupation of the public decision spaces and the maintenance of these participations, which are closely linked in Public Environmental Management, based on the Critical Environmental Education, as an instrument of the Federal oil and gas Environmental Licensing, which attend the traditional fishing communities found in social and environmental vulnerability. The general objective of the research was the analysis of the social transformations occurred in one fisherwoman life, which has assiduous participation in the Pescarte Environmental Education Project actions, who lives in Vila dos Pescadores, a fishing community located in Farol de São Thomé, Campos dos Goytacazes city, Rio de Janeiro. The study intend to investigate the life trajectory of this fisherwoman in order to search elements that coherent with its performance in Pescarte Environmental Education Project; understand how the Pescarte pedagogical practice has added new 'worldviews' in the target public life; ratify target public importance in the social transformation made possible by the Pescarte in the locality investigated. In order to correspond the proposed objectives, a qualitative approach was used and, among the technical procedures, the fisherwoman life story and a participant observation about her performance in the pedagogical actions developed by Pescarte Project were highlighted. The results point to a life transformation in character investigated. From her life trajectory, it is possible to consider the gradual participation increases and the engagement to struggle the guarantee and maintenance of social rights for the traditional community. The research revealed that although there is a process that corroborates to the fisherwoman invisibility in the fishing territories, the investigated character has assumed a prominent role highlighting her as local leadership. Overall, the study elucidate that the environmental critical education processes was important for this woman to occupy a social and political space in fishing, which, historically, is dominated by men linked to fish catch