Reconfigurando o meio ambiente. Reflexões sobre migrações e disputas ambientais na ilha de santa Catarina

Abstract

Since the eighties, Santa Catarina Island has become a tourist and housing destination for many Brazilians and foreigners, usually people with high cultural or economic capital. The analysis of the dynamics between transformations that "come from outside" and the local reception of them allows, as well as reflecting on these social transformations, to grasp invention’s processes at the local level, of categories such as environmentalism, sustainability. Moreover, it underlines the role of migrants in this specific space-time and their territoriality in contexts of cultural hybridization.