Quilombos in Brazil, a geopolitical condition of confinement and resistance to dominant territorial archetypes

the case of Helvécia in the Far South of Bahia

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/0870-4112_3-6_2

Keywords:

Helvécia, Quilombola, Territory, Identity, Geoanthropology

Abstract

This article is the result of a research developed in the black community of Helvécia, a district in the municipality of Nova Viçosa, Bahia State. Its main objective was to report and analyse tensions felt in the territory of this Quilombola community, where the interaction between descendants of slaves and descendants of colonizers presents itself as diplomatic, but has yet to loosen a few chains of the past. As a geoanthropological research, the analysis focuses both on the relationships between community members and on the transformation of the territory. The originality of this research is rooted in its exposure of the internal struggle of the community to belong to a Quilombola.

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Author Biography

Sebastião Pinheiro Gonçalves de Cerqueira Neto, Instituto Federal da Bahia

Licenciado em Geografia (UNITINS, 1996), Mestre em Geografia, com ênfase em Análise e Planejamento Sócioambiental (UFU, 2001) Doutor em Geografia, com ênfase em Análise Regional (UFS, 2009). Pós-Doutorado em Antropologia / Estudo de Quilombola (UFBA, 2014). Pós-doutorado (Bolsa-Capes) no Centro de Estudos Sociais na Universidade de Coimbra em Portugal (2015). Atualmente líder do Grupo de Pesquisa OBSERVATÓRIO MILTON SANTOS NO EXTREMO SUL DA BAHIA (IFBA/CNPQ). Atualmente realiza estágio pós-doutorado no Departamento de História das Ciências e das Técnicas e Epistemologia - HCTE na Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro com a pesquisa A cientificidade como dilema da Geografia: um encontro teórico entre Milton Santos e Evandro Ouriques. Professor nos cursos técnicos e de especialização no IFBA, e Professor no Mestrado em Ciências e Tecnologias Ambientais IFBA/UFSB.

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Published

2020-05-05

Issue

No. 6 (2020): Arquétipo

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