Atuação da Defensoria Pública da União na Amazônia Legal em conflitos de natureza coletiva: período de 2004 a 2010

Abstract

The bodies of the Justice System around the world have taken important places in the institutional-political scene, acting like real political agents entitled with Power resources. That phenomenon of judicialization of public life has occurred in Brazil, specially after the promulgation of the 1988 Constitution. The parties of the Justice System started to have major influence upon the social, economical and political context of the country, working on the enforcement of new rights and the shaping of public agenda. In view of such context, this dissertation analyzes the judicialization of politics in the Brazilian political-institutional circumstances, delimiting, however, its scope to working into the Federal District Attorneys in the Stated that compose the Legal Amazon on conflicts of a group nature, seeking to understand, fundamentally, the judicial and extrajudicial ways to mediate conflicts, the criteria for the institution actions over this type of controversies, as well as the outcome of those actions and relations with the Justice System. The central idea is that the mechanisms which favor inclusion in the justice system can play a major role in the enforcement of rights and the shaping of public agenda.