CONFLICTING DISCOURSES OF ECONOMY AND SOCIETY IN COASTAL BRAZIL

This article analyses how conflicting discourses about a Brazilian fis hing economy are reproduced in practice as different economic structur es. These structures appear when actors enter into confrontations abou t issues such as fishing strategies, catch divisions, social mobility and the relation between fishing enterprise and household. Some disput es are settled through compromise. Others end by the use of force. Thi s study focuses on conflicts which remain unresolved because they rest on conflicting economic discourses that continue to be reproduced in practice.