WE WORKED, BRUSHED, MADE THE DEVIL. THEN THIS IBAMA THING CAME AND LOCKED EVERYTHING: CONSERVATION AND SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICT ON TOP OF MORRO DA FONTE GRANDE (VITÓRIA – ES)

Abstract

This article is the result of my master's research in Social Sciences - conducted at the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo -, which comes to reflect on the socio-environmental conflict existing in Campinho, located at the top of the Morro da Fonte Grande (Vitória-ES), scenario of a dispute for a “green” urban space sandwiched between two sections of an integral protection area. The area occupied for generations by the collective "turned" into a park, and it is no longer possible to hunt, collect or plant. Natural resources have been delimited and not even over the space of their homes do they have more control and autonomy, since there is a prohibition regarding the construction or renovation of properties because, according to the Prefeitura de Vitória, they are located in an Area of ​​Environmental Interest, Environmental Protection Zone and Environmental Protection Area of ​​the Massif Central. Through ethnography, I tried to follow human and non-human actors to understand the representations of environmentalists, managers and environmental technicians as well as the collective. Profoundly unequal in terms of the political power of the human agents involved, the defended perspectives reiterate the confrontation between the preservation of the opposition between nature and society, consolidating policies of seclusion (natural) and exclusion (social), and the permanence in place of the active guardians of another regime of relations between humans and non-humans.