Comunidades Ribeirinhas Amazônicas e a Expansão do Agronegócio
ancestralidades e atualidade da condição camponesa nos vales do Madeira e Purus
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61470/o.v22i2.74792Abstract
The last two Amazonian summers (2023 and 2024) impressed the world due to the severe drought that hit the western portion of the Brazilian Amazon. The very low volume of water in the rivers created a desolate and terrifying landscape, transforming the daily lives of riverside communities and the entire regional society. This work seeks to provoke reflection on the reality of riverside communities established in the valleys of the Madeira and Purus rivers, in the south of the state of Amazonas. Through a relational approach, with data produced from documentary survey, open interviews and direct observation carried out between January 2023 and August 2024, in six communities (three in each valley), the research sheds light on ruptures and continuities of the historical process of (re)existence of a riverside peasantry in this region, pressured by the advance of agribusiness and recent climate events. The data reveal that the symbolic-practical systems that guide these communities are also carriers of elements to imagine a possible future for the Amazon.