Urban‐Rural Livelihoods, Fishing Conflicts and Indigenous Movements in the Middle Rio Negro Region of the Brazilian Amazon

Abstract

This paper discusses how changing urban–rural relationships pose new opportunities and challenges for resource management in the municipality of Barcelos, Middle Rio Negro, Brazilian Amazon. The conflicts arising from poor delimitation of the rights of different resource users, as well as increasing rural–urban connections, have mobilised indigenous peoples to seek to protect traditional fishing territories. However, people's mobility challenges resource management models that are based on permanent residence. This complexity underscores the urgent need for new ecological and political management models to deal with the flux of both people and natural resources, without excluding minority groups.