Pelotas Through the Waters:

Plural Scenes and Narratives about the May 2024 Flood

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https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.2447-9837.2025.n20.73555

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The graphic diary Pelotas Through the Waters: Plural Scenes and Narratives about the May 2024 Flood is a collective production by the Anthropology I class of the Social Sciences undergraduate program at UFPel. The work proposes an anthropological perspective on the relationships among people, animals, things (Ingold, 2012), and waters in Pelotas – a city shaped by its hydric geography. Inspired by Fleischer’s (2019) construction of scenes, Benjamin’s (2009) montage technique, and Freire’s (2021) pedagogy ofthe question, the project brings together multiple voices to create plural narratives about inhabiting flooded territories. The accounts include those of fishers, riverside residents, community leaders, and other urban narrators. Combining scenes, testimonies, collages, maps, and photographs, the diary, through the didactic transposition of knowledge (Chevallard, 2014), reflects on experiences lived during the May 2024 flood and in other temporalities, establishing itself as an educational resource on environmental crisis for high school teaching.

KEYWORDS: Pelotas; narratives; floods; graphic diary.

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Author Biographies

Flávia Maria Silva Rieth, Universidade Federal de Pelotas

Professora do Bacharelado em Antropologia e do Pós-Graduação em Antropologia e Arqueologia da Universidade Federal de Pelotas. Pesquisadora do Grupo de Estudos Etnográficos Urbanos (GEEUR).

Gabriela Pecantet Siqueira, Universidade Federal de Pelotas

Doutoranda e mestra em Sociologia pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia (PPGS) da Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel). Graduanda em Antropologia e Bacharela em Direito (2015) pela UFPel. Educadora de Sociologia no curso Pré-universitário Popular Desafio (PREC/UFPel).

Published

2026-04-22

How to Cite

Maria Silva Rieth, F., & Pecantet Siqueira, G. (2026). Pelotas Through the Waters: : Plural Scenes and Narratives about the May 2024 Flood. Altera Journal of Anthropology, (20), 1–32. https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.2447-9837.2025.n20.73555