Conflito socioambiental e gestão de recursos naturais em territórios quilombolas marajoaras: o caso da comunidade Deus me Ajude, Salvaterra, Marajó/PA

Abstract

The study investigated the relationship between socio-environmental conflicts and the management of natural resources in quilombola territories on the island of Marajó / PA. To this end, the context of quilombola communities in the municipality of Salvaterra was taken, more specifically, that of the Deus me Ajude community. The assessment, conducted under the theoretical perspective of socio-environmental conflicts and natural resource management, was based on a qualitative investigation, using documentary and bibliographic analysis, in addition to conducting field research. In the research universe, it follows that adjoining farmers, aiming to satisfy their interests, take particular advantage of necessary areas for quilombola communities, something that has generated a series of conditions limiting the ways of producing and organizing the social life of community members. However, in the face of the action of the farmers, the reaction of the community members is not of a doldrums, on the contrary, the quilombolas intensify their collective organization and position themselves in front of the opposing group. There arises, due to the abrupt reduction of natural resources to quilombola access and control, an autonomous movement for the collective construction of organizational and adaptive strategies that figure, in this scenario, regarding the management of natural resources. The quilombola group creates, independently and endogenously, ways to manage the available resources, aiming to satisfy the demands and needs of the family support. From this perspective, socioenvironmental conflicts, although they cause innumerable negative and harmful effects to the quilombola daily life, the density of the quilombola struggle is substantial, as well as it favors / helps the management of natural resources.