Subversive Fishing: An Act of Communicating the Re-existence of Traditional Communities of the Xingu River

Abstract

Through the art of fishing and our cultural and traditional knowledge, we carried out the Subversive Fishing in order to defend the Xingu River against the Belo Monte hydroelectric complex and to make the fishermen who lived on this river visible. We materialized the symbolic subjectivity that the river exercised in those who saw it as father and mother; the anthropocentrism of the commodification of nature; the solidarity among those who fished; the identification of traditional fishing sites, their boundaries, socio-environmental conflicts and the lack of public policies for artisanal fishermen. Currently the river is dying little by little and with it, hundreds of lives. The threat to transform what remained of its bed in the reduced flow into a mining complex.