THE CAPITALIST ENTERPRISES AND THEIR IMPACTS ON THE FISHER TERRITORY OF CUMBE, ARACATI – CE

Abstract

The article aims to discuss the social and environmental impacts of the installation of enterprises in the Quilombola territory of Cumbe (Aracati/Ceará), especially related to shrimp farming, wind farms and the water and sewage company of Ceará - CAGECE. The main methodological procedures were based on a bibliographical survey about the fundamentals concepts, themes, and categories worked on, the creation of a field notebook to describe the everyday of the quilombo, research planning meetings, conversation circles with the quilombolas and partner entities, participation in events organized by the community, application of semi-structured interviews and realization of social cartography workshops. It was possible to verify, mainly through the methodology of social cartography, the set of environmental injustices present in this quilombola-fishing territory and the connections with the developmental practices of the companies installed in the last decades. This “development” has exhausted the local natural goods, considered by the community as a common goods and caused several impacts that threaten the existence, work and culture of this traditional population, leading to the arising of socio-environmental conflicts in the territory.