Espaço, sociedade e produção na Amazônia Oriental: o cooperativismo no circuito socioespacial de produção do açaí no Pará

Abstract

The Amazon region and the state of Pará still experience the invisibility of local biodiversity production subsystems, which involve agents and collective organizations responsible for diverse forms of economic integration and linkages. Based on the understanding of the existence of a socio-spatial açaí production circuit (CSP-Açaí) in Pará, this thesis proposed an analysis of the activities of cooperatives within this circuit, in the Grão Pará region. Through theoretical reinterpretations and qualitative methodology, we sought to investigate the nature, social organization, and links established by açaí production cooperatives. In developing their diverse and complex activities, relationships, and material and immaterial flows, these collective organizations can establish operationalizations in the market economy through activities in the upper circuit, and they can also maintain work fronts in a substantive and plural economy through activities and principles of economic behavior carried out in the lower, grassroots circuit. The study of these collective organizations demonstrates that there are resilient ways and pathways to reestablishing an economy as a sociopolitical construct, capable of realigning the relationship between society and nature, based on work and the restoration of democracy.