Resumo:
Traditional communities maintain a harmonious relationship with space and nature. These interactions are revealed through their ways of life, which are rooted in ancestral practices passed down through generations. Based on these connections, guaiamum fishing communities have mobilized to protect their traditional fishing practices and their ways of life. As a tool for mobilization and coping with the conflicts surrounding their guaiamum fishing practices, the community members of the Canavieiras Extractive Reserve, located in southern Bahia, chose to register on the Traditional Territories Platform. This paper, therefore, has the general objective of discussing the effects of registering the guaiamum fishing territory on the aforementioned platform and thus understanding the contradictions linked to the visibility of the territory that the registration provides. To this end, we will pose some fundamental questions, such as to what extent the development of the document can strengthen self-knowledge for territorial self-management, what are the possible impacts of not including communities in the Canavieiras Extractive Reserve's demarcation, and what role do institutions and legal instruments play in strengthening territorial self-management. Thus, to develop the registration process, we took as a starting point an action research approach, aligned with the qualitative method, based on joint action with the communities. To ensure complementarity, theoretical materials were used alongside practical field activities. The registration process of the Goiamunzeiro Territory on the Traditional Territories Platform, although still under analysis, proved to be an important tool for valuing community knowledge, political strengthening, and identity affirmation of the guaiamum fishing communities. More than a formal registration, the initiative generated internal reflections focused on community self-management through traditional knowledge and the protection of lifeways and territory.
