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Local judicial practices in a Quilombola territory in Marajó, Pará, Brazil

This article analyzes the socio-judicial organization of a Quilombola community in the state of Pará, Brazil. Using a pluralistic judicial systems approach, we seek to understand how Quilombolas define who has local land rights and to what capacity they can use the territory. The analysis was ba...

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Autor principal: CARDOSO, Luís Fernando Cardoso e
Outros Autores: SHIRAISHI NETO, Joaquim
Grau: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Publicado em: Redfame Publishing 2021
Assuntos:
Local law
Quilombola community
Socio-juridical organization
Acesso em linha: http://repositorio.ufpa.br:8080/jspui/handle/2011/13786
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spelling ir-2011-137862023-11-17T15:51:25Z Local judicial practices in a Quilombola territory in Marajó, Pará, Brazil CARDOSO, Luís Fernando Cardoso e SHIRAISHI NETO, Joaquim Local law Quilombola community Socio-juridical organization This article analyzes the socio-judicial organization of a Quilombola community in the state of Pará, Brazil. Using a pluralistic judicial systems approach, we seek to understand how Quilombolas define who has local land rights and to what capacity they can use the territory. The analysis was based on ethnographic field research in the community of Bairro Alto, on Marajó island, in Pará state, Brazil. Methods included: participant observation, interviews and questionnaires. The results showed that order in the territory is maintained through local judicial practices constructed during land occupation processes, and later reorganized on the basis of social relationships involving large-scale farmers, ranchers, neighboring Quilombola communities, and the State. Judicial tenets, intrinsic to the community, guide residents’ current land struggles where they are fighting to restore lands expropriated by ranchers that pertain to their original territory. Local legal practices converge with principles of article 68 of the Federal Constitution, making possible the correction of historical injustices related to land struggles in Quilombola communities. CARDOSO, L. F. C. Universidade Federal do Pará 2021-11-26T11:54:05Z 2021-11-26T11:54:05Z 2021-09 Artigo de Periódico CARDOSO, Luis Fernando Cardoso e; SHIRAISHI NETO, Joaquim. Local judicial practices in a Quilombola territory in Marajó, Pará, Brazil. International Journal of Social Science Studies, online, v. 9, n. 5, sep. 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v9i5.5328. Disponível em: http://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/13786. Acesso em:. 2324-8041 http://repositorio.ufpa.br:8080/jspui/handle/2011/13786 10.11114/ijsss.v9i5.5328 eng International Journal of Social Science Studies Acesso Aberto http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/br/ application/pdf Redfame Publishing Brasil https://www.redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/5328
institution Repositório Institucional - Universidade Federal do Pará
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language eng
topic Local law
Quilombola community
Socio-juridical organization
spellingShingle Local law
Quilombola community
Socio-juridical organization
CARDOSO, Luís Fernando Cardoso e
Local judicial practices in a Quilombola territory in Marajó, Pará, Brazil
topic_facet Local law
Quilombola community
Socio-juridical organization
description This article analyzes the socio-judicial organization of a Quilombola community in the state of Pará, Brazil. Using a pluralistic judicial systems approach, we seek to understand how Quilombolas define who has local land rights and to what capacity they can use the territory. The analysis was based on ethnographic field research in the community of Bairro Alto, on Marajó island, in Pará state, Brazil. Methods included: participant observation, interviews and questionnaires. The results showed that order in the territory is maintained through local judicial practices constructed during land occupation processes, and later reorganized on the basis of social relationships involving large-scale farmers, ranchers, neighboring Quilombola communities, and the State. Judicial tenets, intrinsic to the community, guide residents’ current land struggles where they are fighting to restore lands expropriated by ranchers that pertain to their original territory. Local legal practices converge with principles of article 68 of the Federal Constitution, making possible the correction of historical injustices related to land struggles in Quilombola communities.
format Artigo
author CARDOSO, Luís Fernando Cardoso e
author2 SHIRAISHI NETO, Joaquim
author2Str SHIRAISHI NETO, Joaquim
title Local judicial practices in a Quilombola territory in Marajó, Pará, Brazil
title_short Local judicial practices in a Quilombola territory in Marajó, Pará, Brazil
title_full Local judicial practices in a Quilombola territory in Marajó, Pará, Brazil
title_fullStr Local judicial practices in a Quilombola territory in Marajó, Pará, Brazil
title_full_unstemmed Local judicial practices in a Quilombola territory in Marajó, Pará, Brazil
title_sort local judicial practices in a quilombola territory in marajó, pará, brazil
publisher Redfame Publishing
publishDate 2021
url http://repositorio.ufpa.br:8080/jspui/handle/2011/13786
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