Gerazeiros, guardi?es do cerrado: conflito socioambiental na comunidade gerazeira de Catanduva - Norte de Minas Gerais

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Mauro Toledo Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRRJ
• Texto Completo: https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/jspui/6279
• topic: Territorializa??o; territ?rio; identidade; comunidades tradicionais geraizeiras; monoculturas de eucalipto; Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustent?vel; Territorialization processes; traditional geraizeira communities; eucalyptus monocultures; Sustainable Development Reserve; territory, identity; Antropologia

In the 1970s, northern region of Minas Gerais became part of the expansion circuit of the capitalist productive system in which the State acts as an agent of concretization, stimulating the implementation of major economic projects in the region. Over the years, the process of territorialization of economic projects has been responsible for reconfiguring and overlapping traditional territorialities, but at the turn of the 21st century the region is the scene of the phenomenon known as ?(un)invisibilization? of traditional peoples and communities. This movement is based on the legislation of the Federal Constitution of 1988, and more recently, decrees that guarantee the cultural, identity and territorial rights of communities that recognize themselves as traditional. Social effervescence was responsible for the emergence of a mosaic of social groups whose main goal is to maintain their ways of life and to retake traditional territories and to assert themselves under traditional identity signs. In the midst of these changes, traditional communities that recognize themselves as ?geraizeiras? claim their territories located along the Serra Geral, questioning the occupation logic and the ?colonial/modern? model of economic projects that materialize in the region as eucalyptus industrial complexes. In this context, the present work is the result of a case study carried out in a traditional geraizeira community of Catanduva in the upper Pardo river region, north of Minas Gerais state, between the years of 2017 to 2019. The process of territorialization of economic projects linked to industrial monoculture of eucalyptus dismantles the ?territorial fabric? that is socially built by the traditional way of life of these groups, which through regional mobilization around the traditional identity and defense of the geraizeiro territory is responsible for articulation and creation of the Sustainable Development Reserve (RDS) ?Nascentes Geraizeiras?, in which Catanduva is inserted and undergoes a new process of territorialization. With the objective of analyzing the territorial reconfigurations that take place in the community since the intervention of economic projects in the 1970s until the recent creation of the RDS, this work identified the notions with which the geraizeiros from Catanduva understand what ?territory? is, as well as the influence of territoriality and traditional knowledge for the implementation of the RDS with the proper management of natural resources led by the generating communities.