Large hydroelectric projects in the araguari river basin: territorialities, impact and resistance of amapá’s fishing (Amazon, Amapá, Brazil)
International Journal of Development Research
Large hydroelectric projects in the araguari river basin: territorialities, impact and resistance of amapá’s fishing (Amazon, Amapá, Brazil)
Received 10th May 2020; Received in revised form 17th June 2020; Accepted 04th July 2020; Published online 26th August 2020
Copyright © 2020, Laís Melo Lima et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This article points out the case of fishing communities in the Araguari river basin, placed in the Amazonian state of Amapá (Northern Brazil). This is a classic case study of socioenvironmental conflict between small traditional communities against large structural projects set up within a territorial planning that do not consider local territorialities. Mining and mainly large hydroelectric power plants threat traditional fisherman way of life. This research provides a historical geographical and social context background, focusing in territorial policies, and later shows socioeconomic characteristics of the fishermen workers and communities, and its resistance strategies.
