REGIONAL INEQUALITIES AND TERRITORIAL POLICIES: A REFLECTION ON THE QUILOMBOLAS COMMUNITIES OF TOCANTINS (Original)

Authors

  • Marlene Alves Borges-Machado Universidade do Estado da Bahia
  • Welere Gomes-Barbosa Universidade de Brasília
  • Adão Francisco-de Oliveira UFT/Porto Nacional

Keywords:

Quilombolas; Territorial Planning; Poverty; Tocantins

Abstract

The study in mote is on the issue of territorial planning from the valorization construction and maintenance of the social identity of a people, in this case, the quilombola communities of Tocantins. It begins by talking about the process of redemocratization of the country inserting the subject in the context of the new constituent and the unfolding of this construction and insertion of the subject in the Magna Carta. Then it is analyzed for the situation of the quilombolas in Tocantins. For this analysis it was considered the thirty-eight communities that are currently recognized and certified in the State, although six others have been recognized and not yet certified. Considering five hundred years of enslavement of one ethnic group by another that is superior in a country of mestizos, it becomes urgent the debate about the subject in an exhaustive way, and the matter itself is already justified in itself when it seeks the possibility of reparation effectively Such cruelty. They focus on observing the governmental policies that favored and favored this people to preserve their identity and overcome their condition of being a slave to poverty. It consists of this first moment of an exclusively bibliographical research and without any aim of exhaustion of the subject, which will later have new results on this study with new purposes.

Author Biographies

  • Marlene Alves Borges-Machado, Universidade do Estado da Bahia

    Graduada em Geografia e especialista em EAD pela Universidade do Estado da Bahia.

  • Welere Gomes-Barbosa, Universidade de Brasília

    Mestre em Educação Física e Doutoranda na Universidade de Brasília – UnB.

  • Adão Francisco-de Oliveira, UFT/Porto Nacional

    Doutor em Geografia e professor da graduação e da pós-graduação em Geografia da UFT/Porto Nacional.

Published

2018-10-03

How to Cite

REGIONAL INEQUALITIES AND TERRITORIAL POLICIES: A REFLECTION ON THE QUILOMBOLAS COMMUNITIES OF TOCANTINS (Original). (2018). REDEL. Revista Granmense De Desarrollo Local, 2(3), 177-188. https://revistas.udg.co.cu/index.php/redel/article/view/125