Movement and struggle in the Sertão of Northern Minas Gerais

• Grant number: 16/11081-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: September 01, 2016
• End date: March 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Populations
• Principal Investigator: Anna Catarina Morawska Vianna
• Grantee: Pedro Henrique Mourthé de Araújo Costa
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/18951-8 - Quilombola movements, struggle and knowledge in the north of Minas Gerais, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

The aim of this project is to develop an ethnography of the quilombola struggle for their territory in the Sertão of Northern Minas Gerais. Through an ethnographic approach, the research will focus on the movement of people and things as an important part of their struggle, decisive for both their partners' network and the political actions of their leaders. This research takes on the hypothesis that the quilombola political movement is a struggle in movement, performed by moving actors, documents, demands and partners in various spaces of participation and political dispute. By accompanying the quilombola leaders, one hopes to understand how their movement creates scales, both in terms of levels of action (local, regional, national and international) and contingent belongings (defining themselves either as quilombolas, as traditional peoples and communities, or even as rural movements). This in turn produces its own effects in the political movement, since the larger the scale, the larger the reverberations, increasing their connections and the reach of their demands.