Colônia de Pescadores Z3, Pelotas RS : da crise na pesca a expansão do turismo com base no patrimônio cultural

Abstract

Dependents historically of powers that manipulate its existence, many local communities obey the normative ones of the tradition, submit itselves ahead of the religiosity and of the climate, are manipulated in its production, submit itselves ahead of traditional productive markets and face economic crises that evolve for serious social problems as the rural exodus, the unemployment, the domestic violence, the streetfight, the consumption of drugs, the suicide and the robberies and murders. The Colônia de Pescadores Z3, located to the edges of the Lagoa dos Patos, in the city of Pelotas Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, is an example of this imperative condition. An artisan and professional fishing society that ahead of the lack of perspectives, low self-esteem and hopelessness about the future sees itself to the front of an alternative economic activity in focus in its cultural heritage: the tourism. Being thus, this work analyzes how, ahead of a socioeconomic crisis, the Colônia Z3 appropriates itself, values and starts to protect its cultural references in favor of the modification in the order of its social facts, on the basis on the investment in tourism.