Banca de DEFESA: Mirna Silva Oliveira

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : Mirna Silva Oliveira
DATE: 13/12/2024
TIME: 15:00
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TITLE:

Green grabbing as a tool of a racial expropriation contract: an analysis of its emergence, sustainability and effects in Traditional Communities of Fundo and Fecho de Pasto in Western Bahia

KEY WORDS:

green grabbing, enclosure and pasture fund, western Bahia, rural environmental registry, Brazilian forest code

PAGES: 250
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Direito
SUMMARY:

This thesis aimed to analyze the emergence of the problem of green grabbing in Western Bahia, Brazil, taking as reference the case of Fechos Capão do Modesto, Porcos, Guará and Pombas. To this end, it was based on the concept of “raciality device” by Sueli Carneiro (2005) and the thesis of the “racial contract of expropriation” by Charles W. Mills (2023), as well as conducting empirical research in the region. The research was qualitative in nature and followed a predominantly inductive approach, using documentary sources, especially judicial and administrative proceedings, federal and state legislation, data from the Rural Environmental Registry System, technical reports, open letters and historical and recent journalistic articles on land conflicts in the region. The results of the research indicate that green grabbing in western Bahia is emerging from a movement of expansion of the frontiers of big capital into the valley areas – where traditional communities are currently concentrated – with the aim of registering them as legal reserves of farms controlled by agribusiness in the plateau areas and ensuring recognition of the environmental regularity of such rural properties. This movement has been stimulated by changes approved in Brazilian forestry legislation since the 2000s and the creation of norms and legal instruments that have facilitated fraud, such as the Rural Environmental Registry and the Legal Reserve Compensation. It is also clear that green grabbing is not dissociated from traditional land grabbing and acts selectively, because it preferentially affects black, indigenous and traditional communities in general, being an expression of a set of socio-legal mechanisms that allow the perpetuation of the racial contract of expropriation in the Brazilian agrarian reality. Such mechanisms contribute to the construction of a social and legal vulnerability to the detriment of such groups, to the epistemicide and criminalization of their traditional practices of nature management, and to the perpetuation of the privilege of white people in disputes over land and in the construction of “truth” in the relationship with the State. A scenario of highly unequal correlation of forces is observed, but nothing is definitively established in the public or even judicial arenas. To face the threat of territorial expropriation, the communities studied have developed several resistance strategies, which include making visible the specificity of their ways of life and territoriality and the recognition/strengthening of new legal categories representing rights to land use and occupation and environmental protection

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interna - 2279451 - ANA CLAUDIA FARRANHA SANTANA
Externa à Instituição - GABRIELA BARRETO DE SÁ - UNEB
Presidente - 2720249 - GABRIELA GARCIA BATISTA LIMA MORAES
Externa à Instituição - MARCELA VECCHIONE GONÇALVES - UFPA
Externo ao Programa - 1624482 - SERGIO SAUER - null