Mar de conflitos: as diferentes formas de organização política dos pescadores "artezanais"

Abstract

It is necessary to recognize for a politics organizations analysis, besides their institutional dimension, the social conditions in that they were originated, the different motivations of the involved agents and the processes of legitimacy, construction and visibility of these in their society. In this dissertation the different forms of politic organization of the artisanal fishers of a Rio de Janeiro State region, Arraial do Cabo mostly, will be presented and historically insert in a context and in the dynamic process of the social relationships, where categories as "artisanal" fishers can be worked for the group s differentiation or identification according specific contexts of disputes. The forms and contents of the artisanal fishers organization s cannot be disassociated of their varied interactions amongst themselves, and of these with the other constituent social agents of their actions field, as the state regulators organisms for the fishing activity - IBAMA and SEAP -, municipal public powers and fishing, petroleum and tourism enterprises.