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| Author(s): |
Homero Moro Martins
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2016-12-21 |
| Examining board members: |
Ana Lúcia Pastore Schritzmeyer;
John Cunha Comerford;
Ana Claudia Duarte Rocha Marques;
Renata Medeiros Paoliello;
Carlos Alexandre Barboza Plínio dos Santos
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| Advisor: | Ana Lúcia Pastore Schritzmeyer |
| Abstract | |
This is a theoretical and ethnographic research on the various meanings that can be assigned to the rights to recognition among four rural communities in Cananéia (a coastal town in the south of São Paulo state, in Brazil), as they mobilize for their rights as quilombos or traditional communities. We start by analizing the normative-conceptual aspects of the right s to recognition as such: their prevailing categories, references and legal meanings, which result from the political and conceptual debates underlying their legal and regulatory status. A historical and social contextualization about the four localities Mandira, Ex-Colonia, Taquari and Santa Maria follows, in which not only their common processes but also their specific historical origins are considered. We give special attention to the transforming events that impact the groups territorial relations, such as the arrival of land grabbers and the imposition of environmental restrictions. Such events risk the very integrity of their territories, but they also motivate the upcoming of the communities as collective political agents striving for their rights. Notwithstanding these general features, in each community, the change from costumary inheritance rights to the collective property framework, as predicted by the quilombolas right to recognition, suggests new, specific disputes, that defy both the legal categories and the prevailing meanings mobilized by the social movements which aggregate communities in the struggle for their rights. Besides, in each community people and families engage in the struggle in different ways, as they respond to the dynamic state of local social relations and issues, which can bring together or weaken family bonds, modify the conditions of belonging to the community, as people evaluate the actions and reputations of one another. Thus, from a local perspective, the meanings implied in the rights to recognition consider both the shared disrespectful experiences which enable agentes to mobilize collectively and the dynamic state of the local economy of respect, which is assessed by people, family and relatives in managing their issues and setting their varying dispositions towards each communitys struggle for rights. These various, disputed meanings allow us to observe how local agents can interpret and elaborate upon morally motivated demands for rights which are creative and unexpected in the framework of legal categories. Therefore, local settings imply the need for more extensive interpretations regarding the rights to recognition, both on the legal formulations and the corresponding state policies. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/20459-5 - Quilombola communities and territorial relations in Vale do Ribeira-SP |
| Grantee: | Homero Moro Martins |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |