Sistematização crítica da práxis da Papesca entre 2012 e 2018 no canto de Itaipu sob a perspectiva das relações de poder

Abstract

The Program of Extension Research-Action in the Artisanal Fishery Production Chain (PAPESCA) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro has contributed to the empowerment of artisanal fishermen and the traditional and non-traditional population established in the Citer of Itaipu, Niterói, aiming to strengthen management with the creation of the Itaipu Marine Extractive Reserve. The present dissertation sought to understand the praxis of PAPESCA, problematizing its actions and its reflections over a period of approximately 5 years (November 2012 to January 2018). We adopted as main research method the critical systematization proposed by Oscar Jara Holliday (2006). As a result, we realized that empowerment to strengthen participatory management was achieved peripherally in relation to the progress observed in local social organization and in the building of bonds of trust and mutual commitments between PAPESCA and local social actors. In this sense, we understand that the PAPESCA praxis contributed to the strengthening of a social base that was already present in the Itaipu Corner, but whose collective force has always faced many difficulties in expressing itself and determining its own direction in the face of the social challenges with which it including the participatory management of RESEX. We emphasize that the practice of PAPESCA was also marked by an internal coherence of functioning in which the power relations hegemonically placed in the university environment were also problematized. PAPESCA, therefore, has a counter-hegemonic position in the production of knowledge and in the teaching of engineering, which adopts principles of solidarity, alterity, citizenship, transparency, respect for cultural diversity and the environment, and presupposes a critical view of science and of technology.