Jovens ribeirinhos amazônicos: representações sociais sobre comunidade e processos identitários

• Ano de defesa: 2023
• Autor(a) principal: Tiago, Eliana Rodrigues
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo; BR; Doutorado em Psicologia; Centro de Ciências Humanas e Naturais; UFES; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia
• Palavras-chave em Português: Comunidades; Juventude; Ribeirinhos; Psicologia ambiental; Representações sociais; subject.br-rjbn; Psicologia
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/17021

The young inhabitants of riverine communities in Amazonian contexts are a part of the Brazilian population that integrates its traditional peoples. Studies on social representations and on place identity are here a theoretical basis to present the identity processes manifested in riverine youths’ way of life. Disclosing these youths’ social representations of the riverine communities where they live, and also the possible articulations of such representations with the constitution of their place identity have been the aim of this study, which employs both qualitative and quantitative approaches. A multi-method approach was used to grasp both objective and subjective aspects from documents, image and audio records, a field notebook, participant observation, a questionnaire script, and semi-structured interviews. These were applied to 31 young (18 to 29 years old) inhabitants of the Amazon riverine communities, managers and employees of the secretaries in Coari (AM), by the Middle Solimoes river area. Iramuteq software ran the statistical and textual analyses, Where as thematics analysis was used for data interpretation. The results have pointed that the young riverine population’s representations can be classified as follows: a) My place: here I have everything; b) Living in the community: meanings and affections; c) “He” and “She”: Projects and gender issues; and d) Us and them: the riverine people and the city. Riverine young people express the social representations of their communities through the sharing of attitudes, thoughts, culture, values and communication manners. The place identity is manifested by their life experiences, their feeling of belonging, and their attachment to the place and context in which they live. Their realities are marked by Amazonian territoriality. The importance of other studies on traditional peoples and other contexts that share and pay attention to socio-spatial dimensions, ways of thinking, communicating, behavioring, being and constructing of identities is herein highlighted.