Towards a comprehensive analysis of the amazon good living: A case study in Mocapajuba, northeastern Pará

Abstract

This article seeks to identify new alternatives to allow humanity to live well in its dialogic relationship with the environment. This is an approach in which the Andean Good Living theory assumes empirical connotations in the Amazon. It presents partial results from a doctoral research conducted in the Resex-Mar Mocapajuba, northeastern Pará. It used part of the interviewees' speeches from a three-day fieldwork conducted in April 2022. Subsequently, in the compilation process of discussions, it presents a summary table, in which is interpreted that São Caetano de Odivelas local communities, throughout their geographicity and by historically imprinting their rights of use in and through the territory, carried with them ancestral knowledge of problem-solving originating from their experiences and fights for sustainability of their environmental resources. Thus, amid the fragility of present production's mode, it is reinforced the need to face a development aligned with ways of life that are not governed merely by capitalist accumulation. By doing so, we attempt to approximate the concept of territoriality and governance, aligned with the constructions of Environmental Geography, and at the same time highlighting the main objective of all and any land management: development.

Keywords: Territoriality; Governance; Good Living; Extractive Reserve.