Name: Davi Scardua Fontinelli
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 28/06/2016
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Eliana Santos Junqueira Creado | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Carlos Nazareno Ferreira Borges | Internal Examiner * |
| Diogo Bonadiman Goltara | External Alternate * |
| Eliana Santos Junqueira Creado | Advisor * |
| Felipe Ferreira Vander Velden | External Examiner * |
| Patrícia Pereira Pavesi | Internal Alternate * |
Summary: This text is the result of field research conducted during the months of March and November of 2015 in the villages of Regência and Povoação, both situated in the State of Espírito Santo, Brazil. The goal here is make some contributions to the knowledge about human and nonhuman relationships in places WHERE environmental conflicts involving the management and conservation of charismatic" wildlife take place. For this purpose, I seek to identify
movements, trends, conventions, categories and differences shared, or not, by the participants of the many spaces and times in which the fieldwork took place. Searching for the possibility of an empirical analysis, I discussed (without restricting myself in it) the case of sea turtles in the north coast of Espírito Santo (ES). More precisely, I checked the different ways in which
local actors such as scientists, governmental and non-governmental experts invent their relations with the turtles, in the midst of such conflicts. Most of these agents are linked to the regions major environmental project in activity, the Project for Protection of Sea Turtles - TAMAR. After fieldwork and the reading of the gathered bibliography material, it was possible to apprehend the great variety and complexity that encompasses the relationships, the
ancient and contemporary ones, between humans and turtles. Considering the empirical case hereof, I highlight that the north coast of the state of Espírito Santo is facing a time marked by political, economic and environmental dissensions, all related to the use of resources and the local landscape. Therefore, I believe sea turtles can be seen as irradiation and convergence
points of numerous relationships that, directly or indirectly, are relevant to the ramifications of such tensions. Moreover, in the mentioned groups, these relationships did not came forward in statics and/or homogeneous forms.
