A territorialidade e o exercício de direitos ambientais e territoriais no Ariramba

Abstract

This research analyzes the territoriality of the Comunidade Remanescentes de Quilombo do Ariramba, in Óbidos/PA, in order to comprehend the relationship between this community and its land, privileging the labor relations exercised on it. Considering that this community access areas that belongs to the Floresta Estadual do Trombetas, a State Conservation Unit of Sustainable Use, it sought to investigate also the aspects linked to this context. Besides that, this work offers an reflection on the mobilizations for access to the territory and guarantees to the same, going through a review of the quilombolas rights and the environmental rights. For this purpose, it used the category “territoriality”, understood here not as a given condition, but as an ongoing exercise, that materializes itself in the many ways to occupy the land. This category oriented the analyses of the data obtained from an ethnographic fieldwork, analyses of the Anthropological Report of the community and bibliographic e documental review. When analyzing the scenarios described, ambivalent ideas of territory emerged: on one hand, the legal territory, created and controlled by the State; on the other hand, the territory occupied and lived by the community. Even though the territories created by the State can, sometimes, express a form of social control, the creation of them can also be understood as a social and a territorial reassurance by the traditional communities, in this case, the quilombola community.