Guia de relações multiespécies na Baía de Florianópolis - SC

Abstract

Based on ethnographic methods in movement,  the essays aims to describe stories of multispecies Assemblies disturbed by Anthropocene’s infrastructures in Florianópolis Bay, Santa Catarina, Brazil. For this, we are inspired by discussions of landscape anthropology. Against notions that treat the Landscape as an object-space unconnected to subject-inhabitants, we try to highlight the continuities between inhabitants - humans and non-humans - and the Landscape. To help us in the task of producing an ethnography that is less guided by human exceptionalism, we seek transdisciplinary dialogues between Anthropology and scientific fields often unrelated to ethnographies, such as Ecology, Biology, Literature, and Hydrography. Based on Tim Ingold’s reflections referents to skills, we coordinate such transversal dialogues with the knowledge learned or from) fisherman, fishes, tides, winds, and weeds infrastructures, to know how the infrastructures erected in the bay affected and affect more than human coordination. Finally, we seek to identify and describe the processes of a creative resurgence because of multispecies relations between the inhabitants of the landscape. The materialization of ethnography took place from a diversity of supports: from traditional scientific texts to critical descriptions in a literary poetic language, through ethnographic drawings made in and from the field work and exhibitions on websites and social media. In the end, we concluded that preserving is not enough, we must recover the disturbed landscape in the Florianópolis Bay. This most urgent task requires more than listening to its traditional inhabitants - humans, and no-humans: it is necessary to recognize their voices, their knowledge, and their resurgence strategies.