FundaÃÃo de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Cearà / The traditional fishing communities in Cearà coast are promoters of social movements, characteristic of Artisanal Fisheries, which are made from certain social problems (fishing, housing, health, education, etc.). En-fronts in their group, they usually only is overcome by the struggles of these movements, the citizenship rights of their residents, producing a pedagogy inherent in this action. This reality gave rise to the development of such research, which aimed to study the educational process of the social movement in the community of Prainha do Canto Verde, Cearà coast in, trying to understand their role in organizing this community, with the aim of contributing to the social actors and institutional engaged in this activity for the development of public policies that effectively allow the exercise of social rights of these populations. To this end, we follow the steps of qualitative research instruments based on the following design: a case study descriptive qualitative explanatory concepts with ethnographic and action research, as researched and studied a unique community that has a value in itself for a period of five years. We also use the phenomenological approach that aimed to capture and understand the essence of the phenomenon sought, without, however, want a universality of analysis. The primary data were obtained from a non-random sample, intentional, by quotas. The collection of these was conducted from interviews (thirty-one) structured, semistructured and informal, individual, which were applied mainly with local leaders. We also borrowed to aid participant observation and the use of elements of the critical-dialectical methodology, to help us in meeting the interconnections and contradictions that make up the existing social fabric. Tool of the "field journal", where we recorded our impressions about the relationship between the main actors and subjects of research. To organize these data, we seek help of computers, by using a software QSR NUD * IST, as a support tool to analyze the transcripts of our interviews. Data analysis showed that the existing character education in the social movement of Prainha has as a cornerstone the process of mobilization and community organization, based on the grounds of liberating pedagogy of Paulo Freire, incorporated through the practice used by deep-ers of the movement which took into account the political nature of education through an authentic dialogic relationship. This process is responsible for the high degree of conscious-tion, politics and citizenship to that reached the main subject of this research. The result of this work is the strength of the social movement of Prainha in their activity and consequently, community organization, a trait evident in their identity and relevant factors in the social role of this movement, which appears as a model for other traditional fishing communities coast. Similarly, the collective actions of the group of fishermen in this community began to pass around our coast, linking, a move to strengthen local-level state that expands in union with the MONAPE. This research also gave us the opportunity to identify and present to the academic world, two contributions to the formaÃÃo/ constituiÃÃo theory on social movements in the field. / As comunidades tradicionais pesqueiras do litoral cearense sÃo promotoras de movimentos sociais, caracterÃsticos da pesca artesanal, que sÃo constituÃdos com base em determinados problemas sociais (pesca predatÃria, habitaÃÃo, saÃde, educaÃÃo etc.) enfrentados em seu coletivo, que normalmente sà sÃo superados nas lutas desses movimentos, produzindo uma pedagogia inerente a essa aÃÃo. Essa realidade ensejou a elaboraÃÃo desta pesquisa, que se propÃs estudar o papel do movimento social da Prainha do Canto Verde no processo educativo de comunidades tradicionais de pescadores artesanais litorÃneos, com o propÃsito de contribuir com os sujeitos sociais e institucionais que atuam nessa atividade para a elaboraÃÃo de polÃticas pÃblicas que efetivamente permitam o exercÃcio dos direitos sociais dessas populaÃÃes. Para tanto, procurou-se seguir os passos instrumentais da pesquisa qualitativa, fundamentada em um estudo de caso descritivo, qualitativoexplicativo, com concepÃÃes etnogrÃficas e da pesquisa-aÃÃo, pois se pesquisou e estudou uma comunidade singular que possui um valor em si mesma, durante um perÃodo de cinco anos. TambÃm se utilizou o enfoque fenomenolÃgico que teve como objetivo captar e compreender a essÃncia do fenÃmeno buscado, sem, contudo, pretender uma universalidade de anÃlise. Os dados primÃrios foram obtidos de uma amostra nÃo aleatÃria, do tipo intencional, por quotas. A coleta desses foi realizada mediante a aplicaÃÃo de entrevistas (31) estruturadas, semiestruturadas e informais, individuais, as quais foram aplicadas, principalmente, com as lideranÃas locais. TambÃm se recorreu à ajuda da observaÃÃo participante e ao emprego de elementos da metodologia crÃtico-dialÃtica, para ajudar no encontro das interconexÃes e contradiÃÃes que formam o tecido social local; da ferramenta âdiÃrio de campoâ, onde se registram nossas impressÃes acerca das relaÃÃes entre os principais sujeitos da pesquisa. Para organizaÃÃo desses dados, buscou-se o auxÃlio da informÃtica, mediante a utilizaÃÃo do software QSR NUD*IST, como ferramenta de apoio para anÃlise das transcriÃÃes das entrevistas. A anÃlise dos dados evidenciou que o carÃter educativo existente no movimento social da Prainha possui como pedra fundamental a mobilizaÃÃo e a organizaÃÃo comunitÃria, tendo como base a pedagogia libertadora de Paulo Freire, incorporada na prÃtica utilizada pelos fundadores do movimento, que levou em conta a natureza polÃtica da educaÃÃo por meio de uma autÃntica relaÃÃo dialÃgica. Esse processo à responsÃvel pelo elevado grau de conscientizaÃÃo, formaÃÃo polÃtica e cidadania a que chegaram os principais sujeitos desta pesquisa. O resultado do trabalho à a solidez do movimento social da Prainha, de sua mobilizaÃÃo e, por consequÃncia, da organizaÃÃo da comunidade, traÃo evidente de sua identidade e fatores relevantes no papel social desse movimento, que se mostra como referÃncia para as demais comunidades tradicionais pesqueiras litorÃneas. Da mesma forma, as aÃÃes coletivas do grupo de pescadores dessa comunidade passaram a repercutir em todo o litoral do Estado, estabelecendo uma articulaÃÃo, fortalecendo um movimento na contextura municipal-estadual que se amplia na uniÃo com o MONAPE. Esta pesquisa tambÃm concedeu a oportunidade de se identificar e apresentar ao universo acadÃmico duas contribuiÃÃes para a discussÃo da teoria sobre os movimentos sociais em comunidades tradicionais.

FundaÃÃo de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Cearà / O fechamento da temporada de pesca da lagosta no Nordeste Brasileiro, que, atualmente, vai de 1 de janeiro a 30 de abril (portaria/IBAMA n 137/94, de 12 de dezembro de 1994), à conhecido como o âdefeso da lagostaâ. Nesse perÃodo, as comunidades de pescadores litorÃneas que vivem exclusivamente da pesca desse crustÃceo passam por suas maiores necessidades e enfrentam seus piores problemas socioeconÃmicos. Assim, os pescadores artesanais dessas comunidades ficam mais vulnerÃveis e dependentes das aÃÃes, intervenÃÃes e favores dos agentes que atuam na comercializaÃÃo da pesca local. Essa realidade ensejou a elaboraÃÃo da presente pesquisa, que procurou observar e identificar caracterÃsticas dos fenÃmenos sociais e econÃmicos da pesca artesanal de lagosta, na comunidade de Redonda, localizada no MunicÃpio de Icapuà (CE), descrevendo-os, classificandoos e correlacionando-os com aÃÃes e intervenÃÃes dos comerciantes da pesca local, principalmente com relaÃÃo ao perÃodo do defeso. Para a realizaÃÃo do trabalho, foi desenvolvido um estudo quantitativo e qualitativo, no qual, para a coleta dos dados primÃrios utilizados, recorreu-se aos instrumentos metodolÃgicos da observaÃÃo participante, de questionÃrios administrados e entrevistas estruturadas e informais. Estes foram utilizados numa populaÃÃo de aproximadamente 400 pescadores, em meio a qual foram aplicados 65 questionÃrios e entrevistados os 10 principais intermediÃrios residentes no local, assim como 11 lideranÃas formais e nÃo formais. Deve-se salientar que a definiÃÃo do problema da investigaÃÃo teve a participaÃÃo direta da comunidade envolvida. Os resultados do estudo apontam para uma participaÃÃo ativa dos intermediÃrios, nos segmentos econÃmicos e sociais da pesca artesanal na comunidade, principalmente naqueles referentes aos financiamentos de seus meios de produÃÃo e nas emergÃncias de saÃde de seus habitantes. Conseguiu-se, tambÃm, identificar e quantificar a renda mÃdia bruta mensal dos pescadores, de maneira geral e por categoria, e observou-se que, quanto mais desprovidos sÃo de seus meios de trabalho, menor sua remuneraÃÃo e maior sua expropriaÃÃo por aqueles agentes detentores do capital e controladores do processo de comercializaÃÃo. Em face dos resultados alcanÃados, concluiu- se que os intermediÃrios (barraqueiros) da comunidade de Redonda contribuem para a inÃrcia do pescador no perÃodo do defeso, assim como estÃo se apropriando de seus meios e fatores de produÃÃo. Serà atravÃs de processos educativos, via entidades associativas, conscientizando o pescador nos questionamentos de seus problemas, que a categoria vai poder buscar soluÃÃes para resolve-los e, minimizar as interferÃncias impostas pelos agentes da intermediaÃÃo. à tambÃm atravÃs destes processos, que deverà fluir toda e qualquer aÃÃo de intervenÃÃo de governo na comunidade. / This study was developed in the fisherman community of Redonda in Icapuà county in the eastern side of Cearà State-Brazil. The research aimed to observe and identify social and economic characteristics of the lobster small-scale fishing in the community, describing, classifying and correlating them to the action and intervention of local fishery trademan, specially in relation to the fisheries closed season. To this, a quantitative and qualitative study was developed through the aplication of participant observation, administrative questionnaries, informed and structured interviews. They were applied to a population of four hundred fishermen, a total of sixty five questionnaries and twenty one interviews. From those last, ten were the main market middlemen and eleven, formal and non formal leadership. It is important to state that the local community had a participative role in the definition of the research problem. The results of the study point to the lack of income and its consequences as the main problem of this community as well as the negative intervention of the middlemen who provide many to them for the production means and health emergencies. Facing those problems it was concluded that the market middlemen of the community of Redonda have contributed to the lethargy of the fishermen during the fisheries closed season, as well as they are appropriating of their means and production features. It will be through the fishermen association, organizative and educative processes that the conscientization of their problems will be done. Then, the search for solutions and the minimizations of the interference of the market middlemen will be possible. It will be also through these processes that any government intervention in the community has to be done.

Humanitarian aid and disaster relief are delivered in times of crises or natural disasters, such as after a conflict or in response to a hurricane, typhoon, or tsunami. Different from regular aid programs, aid and relief are provided to deal with emergency and immediate local areas, and to shelter affected people and refugees impacted by sudden traumatic events. There is evidence that natural and man-made disasters are increasing in numbers all around the world, affecting hundreds of millions of people every year. In spite of this fact, only in recent years – beginning in 2005 – has management of the supply chain of resources and materials for humanitarian aid and disaster relief been a topic of interest for researchers. Consequently, the academic literature in this field is comparatively new and still sparse, indicating a requirement for more academic studies. As a key part of the C-Change International Community-University Research Alliance (ICURA) project for managing adaptation to environmental change in coastal communities of Canada and the Caribbean, this thesis develops a framework and analytical model for domestic supply chain management in humanitarian aid and disaster relief in the event of severe storm and flooding in the Canadian C-Change community of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. In particular, the focus includes quantitative modeling of two specific aspects during the preparedness phase for emergency management: (1) inventory prepositioning and (2) transportation planning. In addition, this thesis proposes and analyses the characteristics of an effective supply chain management framework in practice to assist Canadian coastal communities in improving their preparation and performance in disaster relief efforts. The results indicate Charlottetown system effectiveness and decreased time to assist affected people are improved by distributing central emergency supply among more than one base station.

Cette thèse pose et explore ici les possibilités de « dialogue des connaissances » entre scientifiques et communautés locales concernant la mise en place des stratégies de résilience en vue de l'adaptation aux risques côtiers attribués aux changements climatiques. Ce dialogue porte sur la question des représentations paradigmatiques, des valeurs et des enjeux matériels. Ce dialogue des connaissances, prôné au sein de la communauté scientifique et réclamé par le public large, s'impose de plus en plus vu la complexité des questions de sociétés liées au climat et aux visions du monde différentes. La rationalité technocentrée a toujours dominé dans les réponses aux défis liés à l'adaptation. Cependant, au nom de la gouvernance intégrée, cette approche est de plus en plus battue en brèche par les communautés locales du fait de leur fort engagement dans la proposition d’alternatives socialement co-construites. Dans le premier article « Communicating risk through a DSS: a coastal risk centered empirical analysis », nos recherches portent sur le conflit de représentations opposant scientifiques et acteurs locaux à propos de la nature probabiliste du risque côtier et des options de mitigation des impacts. Ainsi, une communication dialogique, basée sur la prise en compte des heuristiques de valeurs des acteurs locaux, est nécessaire. Dans le deuxième article « L'utilisation du concept polysémique de résilience: une analyse empirique en milieu côtier », nos recherches portent sur le choix de sens à propos du mot résilience à travers les politiques publiques de gestion du risque côtier. Ce concept, eu égard à son histoire et son évolution à travers ses différents usages disciplinaires, a posé, outre le problème de polysémie liée à sa forte utilisation, un manque de consensus sur le sens adéquat. Dans le troisième article «Vulnérabilité et résilience, entre conceptions déterministes et non déterministes : les sciences du risque côtier à la croisée des chemins », il s’agit de questionner les choix de modèles et d’approches utilisés par les chercheurs pour analyser et intervenir sur les systèmes côtiers. Construisant sur les résultats des premiers articles, cet article constitue une proposition unique de basculement paradigmatique dans le traitement conceptuel et opérationnel de la gouvernance des socio-écosystèmes complexes. La forme de présentation adoptée (thèse par articles) est faite dans le respect des principes et techniques rédactionnels requis, approuvée dans le monde académique (ici l'université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines). Les trois articles sont étroitement liés par leurs thématiques respectives. Ceci explique la cohérence de la recherche menée et des résultats obtenus. Dans la méthodologie, la recherche s'appuie sur une démarche empirique en partant d’une démarche théorique ayant trait aux concepts étudiés. La méthode de collecte de données est les entretiens semi-directifs, focus groupe, muni de questionnaires thématiques. La méthode de traitement des corpus empiriques s’est effectuée par le codage dans ATLAS.ti. La méthode d’analyse des corpus est faite par l’approche théorisation ancrée itérative. Le public cible est les scientifiques du projet THESEUS et les communautés côtières de trois sites d'expérimentation du projet (Gironde en France, Santander en Espagne et Cesenatico en Italie). Dans la conclusion, d'abord il a été admis que les tensions paradigmatiques compromettent l'efficacité des systèmes d'aide à la décision et la nécessité d’un consensus entre heuristiques sur le risque côtier ; ensuite, les mêmes conflits de paradigmes ont des conséquences dans le redéploiement opérationnel du concept de résilience et qu'un dialogue sur le sens du concept puisse être établi de façon épistémologiquement robuste ; enfin, il est primordial que soit établi une articulation fine entre choix de sens, déploiement opérationnel et représentations paradigmatiques sous-jacentes aux concepts déployés. / This PhD sets and explores the possibilities of « dialogue of knowledge » between scientists and local communities about resilience strategies implementations for climate coastal risks adaptation. This dialogue focuses on questions of paradigmatics representations, values and materials issues. This dialogue of knowledge, advocated by scientific community and claimed by wide audience, is increasingly needed due to complex societal problems related to climate change and different world visions. The technocentered rationality has always been an approche which dominate in the responses to the challenge of adaptation. However, in the name of integrated gouvernance, this approach is more and more contested by local communities due to their strong engagement in proposing socially co-constructed alternatives. In the first paper « Communicating risk through a DSS: a coastal risk centered empirical analysis » our research focus on the conflict of representation between scientists and local stackeholders about the probabilistic nature of coastal risk and the impacts mitigation options. Thus, a dialogic communication, based on taking into account heuristic values of local actors, is necessary. In the second paper « L'utilisation du concept polysémique de résilience: une analyse empirique en milieu côtier » our research focus on the choice of meaning of resilience concept through public policy of coastal risk management. This concept, considering its history and evolution through its various disciplinary practices, has raised, in addition to problem of polysemy due to its high use, a lack of consensus on the suitable definition. In the third paper «Vulnérabilité et résilience, entre conceptions déterministes et non déterministes : les sciences du risque côtier à la croisée des chemins », it is to questionne the choice of models and approaches used by reseachers to analyse and intervene on the coastal system. Building on the two first papers, this pape ris an unique proposition of paradigmatic tilt in the conceptual and operational processing of socio-ecosystems gouvernance. This way of presentation (thesis structured by papers) is done in accordance with required principles and technics of redaction approved by academic world (here, the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines). The three papers are closely linked in their respective thematic. This explain the coherence of the conducted research and the obtained results. In the methodology, the research is built/base on an empirical approach starting from an theorical approach related to the concepts studied. The method of datas collection is semi-structured interviews, focus group, with a thematic questionnaire. The method of datas processing is done by coding these latter in ATLAS.ti. The method of datas analysis is done by iterative grounded theorisation. The targeted audience is the scientific involved in the THESEUS project and the coastal communities lived in three experimental coastal settings of the project (Gironde in France, Santander in Spain and Cesenatico in Italia). In the conclusion, it is first admitted that paradigmatic tensions can compromise the efficacity of decision support system process and the need of consensus between heuristics on the coastal risk ; second, the same paradigmatic conflicts have some consequences in the operational deployment of resilience concept and it requires a dialogue about the signification of this concept in an epistemologically robust way. Finally, it is primordial to found a neat articulation between the choice of meaning, the operational deployment and the paradigmatic representations underlying the displayed concepts.

As a result of development pressures and water resource struggles, once rural, spatially segregated coastal commercial fishing villages along the U.S. portion of the Gulf of Mexico are increasingly tourist frontiers for elites and the emergent businesses that cater to them. Over the course of the twentieth century, water events, from coastal land loss to hurricane destruction to natural disaster, have fast-tracked development projects that have allowed for the expansion of the tourism sector, and relaxed policies to encourage bold new economic development initiatives that often put poor coastal communities and their environment in jeopardy. This outcome is not universal across the northern Gulf Coast, but contingent on a number of local factors overlooked in the literature on coastal tourism and water policy development. This paper investigates the local nuances that have emerged as responses to global and regional development pressures by focusing on the ways in which local values and policy decisions have influenced the spread of coastal urbanization. An intensive analysis will examine the layered effects of changing land-use patterns and tourism growth pressures on three at-risk coastal communities in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida, in the United States. This paper will test the hypothesis that coastal communities affected by a similar set of development pressures respond to these forces in different ways, depending on complex local and regional variabilities. The paper’s focus is centered on Northern Gulf Coast tourism growth patterns from post-World War II through 2018, and employs a mixed method, multiple-sited case-study design.

In an attempt to address the seeming imbalance within studies of rural communities in Australia linked to primary industries, this study examines the broader aspects of policy changes and bio-economic imperatives in the Western Rock Lobster Fishery and the effects of the restructuring of the fishery on communities that host the rock lobster fleet. It is an innovative study in that it is one of the first comprehensive studies of industry restructuring in the fisheries sector; a study of the linkages and implications of restructuring on the social, economic and cultural facets of coastal communities in Western Australia. Globalisation in the fishery sector, aided by technological advances, has resulted in a greater exploitation of high-value fisheries for export. Intensified globalisation has also brought about environmental and social standards that ensure the survival of by-catch species and promote responsible codes of fishing practice. In Australia, the active support of the government for globalisation, led to the adoption of export-oriented policies emphasising competitiveness and efficiency. Consideration of market principles thus govern fisheries regulators when deciding on the management arrangements to adopt for a particular fishery. In considering a number of policy instruments and management measures, government regulators also consider the conservation of marine resources alongside the production of significant economic and social benefits. The Western Rock Lobster Fishery is the most valuable single species fishery in Western Australia with a sizeable financial and employment contribution to coastal communities along the Western Australian coast. Any management scheme adopted for this fishery, as such, not only has to take into account biological and environmental imperatives but also economic and social objectives. The analysis of the fishery undertaken in this thesis underlines the need for a holistic view of fishery management that takes into consideration not only biological sustainability, but also promotes an understanding of fishers' behaviours and fishing patterns and the consequent effects on specific communities. The demographic and social changes that affect rural communities further complicate the economic restructuring at the fishery level, with fishers' responses differing based on their circumstances and preferences. This thesis presents a snapshot of a fishery deliberating changes in management arrangements and its effects on coastal communities whose socio-demographic and economic development historically has depended, and to a great extent is still dependent, upon rock lobster fishing. It provides empirical evidence that lends support to the view that the pro-market policies promoting competition and entrepreneurialism have resulted in a spatially uneven development in regional Australia. Specific localities can deal with the changes brought about by globalisation and policy change. However, the manner in which these communities deal and cope with these changes depends on a number of factors, among others, the level of diversification of the local economy, demographic and social structures, and other factors such as the level of resilience and the social capital base within the community.

GALDINO, José Wilson. Educação e movimentos sociais na pesca artesanal: caso da Prainha do Canto Verde, no litoral cearense. 2010. 316f. Tese (Doutorado em Educação) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Faculdade de Educação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza-CE, 2010. / Submitted by Maria Josineide Góis (josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-07-10T13:16:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_Tese_JWGaldino.pdf: 7539602 bytes, checksum: b5b000caf767775ad951bbfd2cc69868 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-07-12T13:03:18Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_Tese_JWGaldino.pdf: 7539602 bytes, checksum: b5b000caf767775ad951bbfd2cc69868 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-07-12T13:03:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_Tese_JWGaldino.pdf: 7539602 bytes, checksum: b5b000caf767775ad951bbfd2cc69868 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / The traditional fishing communities in Ceará coast are promoters of social movements, characteristic of Artisanal Fisheries, which are made from certain social problems (fishing, housing, health, education, etc.). En-fronts in their group, they usually only is overcome by the struggles of these movements, the citizenship rights of their residents, producing a pedagogy inherent in this action. This reality gave rise to the development of such research, which aimed to study the educational process of the social movement in the community of Prainha do Canto Verde, Ceará coast in, trying to understand their role in organizing this community, with the aim of contributing to the social actors and institutional engaged in this activity for the development of public policies that effectively allow the exercise of social rights of these populations. To this end, we follow the steps of qualitative research instruments based on the following design: a case study descriptive qualitative explanatory concepts with ethnographic and action research, as researched and studied a unique community that has a value in itself for a period of five years. We also use the phenomenological approach that aimed to capture and understand the essence of the phenomenon sought, without, however, want a universality of analysis. The primary data were obtained from a non-random sample, intentional, by quotas. The collection of these was conducted from interviews (thirty-one) structured, semistructured and informal, individual, which were applied mainly with local leaders. We also borrowed to aid participant observation and the use of elements of the critical-dialectical methodology, to help us in meeting the interconnections and contradictions that make up the existing social fabric. Tool of the "field journal", where we recorded our impressions about the relationship between the main actors and subjects of research. To organize these data, we seek help of computers, by using a software QSR NUD * IST, as a support tool to analyze the transcripts of our interviews. Data analysis showed that the existing character education in the social movement of Prainha has as a cornerstone the process of mobilization and community organization, based on the grounds of liberating pedagogy of Paulo Freire, incorporated through the practice used by deep-ers of the movement which took into account the political nature of education through an authentic dialogic relationship. This process is responsible for the high degree of conscious-tion, politics and citizenship to that reached the main subject of this research. The result of this work is the strength of the social movement of Prainha in their activity and consequently, community organization, a trait evident in their identity and relevant factors in the social role of this movement, which appears as a model for other traditional fishing communities coast. Similarly, the collective actions of the group of fishermen in this community began to pass around our coast, linking, a move to strengthen local-level state that expands in union with the MONAPE. This research also gave us the opportunity to identify and present to the academic world, two contributions to the formação/ constituição theory on social movements in the field. / As comunidades tradicionais pesqueiras do litoral cearense são promotoras de movimentos sociais, característicos da pesca artesanal, que são constituídos com base em determinados problemas sociais (pesca predatória, habitação, saúde, educação etc.) enfrentados em seu coletivo, que normalmente só são superados nas lutas desses movimentos, produzindo uma pedagogia inerente a essa ação. Essa realidade ensejou a elaboração desta pesquisa, que se propôs estudar o papel do movimento social da Prainha do Canto Verde no processo educativo de comunidades tradicionais de pescadores artesanais litorâneos, com o propósito de contribuir com os sujeitos sociais e institucionais que atuam nessa atividade para a elaboração de políticas públicas que efetivamente permitam o exercício dos direitos sociais dessas populações. Para tanto, procurou-se seguir os passos instrumentais da pesquisa qualitativa, fundamentada em um estudo de caso descritivo, qualitativoexplicativo, com concepções etnográficas e da pesquisa-ação, pois se pesquisou e estudou uma comunidade singular que possui um valor em si mesma, durante um período de cinco anos. Também se utilizou o enfoque fenomenológico que teve como objetivo captar e compreender a essência do fenômeno buscado, sem, contudo, pretender uma universalidade de análise. Os dados primários foram obtidos de uma amostra não aleatória, do tipo intencional, por quotas. A coleta desses foi realizada mediante a aplicação de entrevistas (31) estruturadas, semiestruturadas e informais, individuais, as quais foram aplicadas, principalmente, com as lideranças locais. Também se recorreu à ajuda da observação participante e ao emprego de elementos da metodologia crítico-dialética, para ajudar no encontro das interconexões e contradições que formam o tecido social local; da ferramenta “diário de campo”, onde se registram nossas impressões acerca das relações entre os principais sujeitos da pesquisa. Para organização desses dados, buscou-se o auxílio da informática, mediante a utilização do software QSR NUD*IST, como ferramenta de apoio para análise das transcrições das entrevistas. A análise dos dados evidenciou que o caráter educativo existente no movimento social da Prainha possui como pedra fundamental a mobilização e a organização comunitária, tendo como base a pedagogia libertadora de Paulo Freire, incorporada na prática utilizada pelos fundadores do movimento, que levou em conta a natureza política da educação por meio de uma autêntica relação dialógica. Esse processo é responsável pelo elevado grau de conscientização, formação política e cidadania a que chegaram os principais sujeitos desta pesquisa. O resultado do trabalho é a solidez do movimento social da Prainha, de sua mobilização e, por consequência, da organização da comunidade, traço evidente de sua identidade e fatores relevantes no papel social desse movimento, que se mostra como referência para as demais comunidades tradicionais pesqueiras litorâneas. Da mesma forma, as ações coletivas do grupo de pescadores dessa comunidade passaram a repercutir em todo o litoral do Estado, estabelecendo uma articulação, fortalecendo um movimento na contextura municipal-estadual que se amplia na união com o MONAPE. Esta pesquisa também concedeu a oportunidade de se identificar e apresentar ao universo acadêmico duas contribuições para a discussão da teoria sobre os movimentos sociais em comunidades tradicionais.