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ETHNOMATHEMATICS OF RIVERSIDE CHILDREN INFLUENCED BY BELO MONTE HYDROELECTRIC PLANT

Abstract

The research in question discusses one of the impacts of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam on fishing activity, more precisely on the commercialization of fish by the riverside residents of a community in the interior of the Paraense Amazon and, consequently, on their language games to starting from the theoretical and methodological studies of Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his mature work, and Michel Foucault, who take language as an element of problematization. Developed, based on inspirations regarding ethnographic research with a group of students from a multigrade riverside school in the initial years of primary school, through social cartography and narratives experienced with the students. The data produced from a section of the social cartography show that children have a broad domain of their place of belonging, as well as the activities that take place there, such as fishing, strongly impacted after the implementation of the hydroelectric power plant, based on their experiences. In addition to that, it indicates the school, even installed and functioning in adverse conditions, as a place for learning other languages capable of adding to this process of ruptures and changes.