Ideologies, utopias, dystopias, “atopias”: counter-hegemonic movements on the nature – cultural relationship

Abstract

In this article we take the concepts of ideology and utopia from Paul Ricoeur, of dystopia from François Ost and offer the concept of understanding the relationship between nature and culture. We will describe, from a cognitive openness to the empirical world, a paradigmatic case whose interpretation contemplated such concepts and some of their uses. That’s the saga of Leonel Siqueira da Silva’s family who, for twenty-five years, claims the right to remain in the Morro das Andorinhas, oceanic region of the city of Niterói / RJ. The follow up of the controversies led the construction of the concept of entopia, which invites us to rekindle with the world, to make places permanently habitable, to couple, to harmonize local representations, to live cultural forms with new rules of time, space and law “atopia” in order to recover the dimension of feasibility, absent in the two first and distorted in the third, in a new way of.