In the 1980s, local mobilization to turn a mangrove swamp, the Manguezal do Jequiá, into an environmentally protected area in the urban periphery of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, brought distinct motivations together under one vision: that of regenerating what was once a resource-rich commons for local fishers. However, conflicts emerged when framings ceased to coincide, thereby curtailing the network, and compromising the co-existence of humans, fish and mangroves. Prompted by the ethnographic category of pelego, or ‘scab’, used by people from outside the community to explain political disengagement amongst fishers, this paper sheds light on what being political means. Following the tropes of nets and networks, it unveils the tension between adaptation and resistance. At the threshold between traditional ways of living and progress, between continuity and change, adaptation emerges as a means to survive for both the mangroves and the fishers, who are political insofar as they affect the relations that constitute the network.

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政治伦理与社会运动：“渔贼”的美德与弊端

在 1980 年代，当地动员将 Manguezal do Jequiá 红树林沼泽变成巴西里约热内卢城市外围的一个环境保护区域，将不同的动机集中在一个愿景下：再生曾经是一种资源的东西——当地渔民的丰富公共资源。然而，当框架不再重合时，冲突就出现了，从而限制了网络，并危及人类、鱼类和红树林的共存。受到 pelego 或“scab”的人种学类别的启发，社区外的人用它来解释渔民之间的政治脱离，本文阐明了政治意味着什么。遵循网络和网络的比喻，它揭示了适应和抵抗之间的紧张关系。在传统生活方式和进步之间的门槛上，