Processo de reconhecimento Quilombola: um estudo sobre a Comunidade Palmas (RS)

Abstract

With the Federal Constitution of 1988, the remaining quilombo community rights were recognized. Through the 68th article of the Transitory Constitutional Disposition Act, it was determined that those communities have rightful territorial claims to the land they occupy and so, the State must issue appropriate titles. To claim those rights, the remaining quilombos must go through a legal community’s self-recognition process. Concerning this process, the present study analyzed the State’s possible influence – through its territorial policies – on individual community member recognition in Quilombo de Palmas Remanescentes Community, in Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Qualitative method was employed for documental and bibliographical research together with the collection of data through direct observation and semi-structured interviews. Through the research techniques employed, a basic theoretical contextualization for the terms Comunidades Remanescentes Quilombos, public policies and political policies for Quilombolas, territory, recognition and self-recognition. In a similar way, the norms and process referent to self-recognition and quilombola territory registration were identified and its quantitative data was compiled. Information was also collected regarding Palma’s quilombola community, presenting a biography for the community with its history, it’s different stages in the process as well as the characters involved in it. The community member’s testimony was also used to draw a picture of the self-recognition process.