SOUZA, V. E.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6573565337307756; SOUZA, Vanessa Emanuelle de.
Resumo:
The Brazilian scenario, after the Federal Constitution of 1988, opened space for
the recognition and regularization of the quilombola territories. In order to
understand the diversity that these territories possess, this thesis was
constituted. Based on a research exercise carried out in the Agreste region of
the State of Paraíba, in the Matão Quilombo, to which we had the opportunity to
arrive when it passed through the production process of the Technical Report
on the Identification and Delimitation of Territory (RTID), in the year 2008. Since
then, we have established a research relationship that has been accompanying
the various phases of the process of recognition of the quilombola territory. We
seek to understand the efforts to maintain life and social reproduction in this
land, given the adverse conditions to which they are subjected. To do so, we
conducted a research that appreciated the understanding of everyday life
through the stories of its residents, told in conversations and interviews. Also
important were the moments of coexistence outside the locus of research, in
neighboring cities, fairs and events. We find a situation marked by traditionally
and historically constructed working and neighborhood relations, which refers to
a condition of subordination and which is treated by the same through the
category of subjection; this situation implied a struggle to ensure the survival
and maintenance of the possession of its territory. This scenario has undergone
a series of transformations with the participation of organizations that work with
the quilombola cause. The process of self-recognition has a direct impact on
their lives, builds new worldviews and opportunities for negotiation. However,
we understand that this universe is cut out by internally constructed elements
that dictate the life and the way of insertion in the scenario of the claims,
namely: gender and generation. It is through these elements that the residents
experience the consequences of the involvement in the universe of the claim of
specific rights and that legitimize or not the participation of the same ones in
these scenarios. During the research, we come across the stories of lives and
the demands of men and women, young and old. Their life projects and
practices are, according to gender and generation, distinct and, in some cases,
conflicting. It is through these local markers that one feels the impacts of selfrecognition,
and it is they that legitimize the participation of each resident in the
elements brought to the place, through their recognition as quilombolas.
