Existir e resistir: as geografias das comunidades quilombolas no município de Corumbá-MS

Abstract

This thesis has as main objective to analyze the existence, trajectories, and resistances of the Comunidade Quilombola Ribeirinha Família Ozório (AQUIRRIO), Comunidade Quilombola Ribeirinha Família Campos Correia (AQF2C), and Comunidade Quilombola Maria Theodora (ACTHEO) in Corumbá-MS. In this study, we seek to elucidate the signs of resistance, based on the production of a territorial multipolarity as a way for these communities to survive in the face of the lack of public actions and the State's inertia regarding the right to land focused on quilombola demands. Furthermore, our purpose is to understand the political, economic, social, religious, and cultural meanings of the resistance of quilombola communities, characterizing the production of a territorial multipolarity as an alternative to the model imposed by hegemonic capital. In terms of methodological procedures, the qualitative approach is used in order to understand the reality experienced by the quilombola communities of Corumbá. Based on these methods, we verified the production of multi-territorialities and territorial multipolarities in the quilombola communities Família Ozório, Campos Correia, and Maria Theodora. For this purpose, we took into consideration the set of places produced in the daily life of the quilombola family nucleus and the usual mobility between the neighborhoods of the city of Corumbá and the offices of these communities. We also consider the displacements and flows resulting from the Paraguay River flood cycle and the flooding of traditionally occupied territory, the displacements between the Tents and the Orixás Valley, and the mobilities in the access to equipment public services that do not exist in quilombola communities. In this context, we may attribute to the quilombola multipolarity a process of survival and resistance of the communities under study. We concluded that territorial multipolarity had created new quilombola trajectories, and this process is based on articulation among the communities, which produces greater solidarity among the quilombola groups, strengthening their struggles for land rights and emphasizing the non-existence of public policies.