Banca de DEFESA: Liliane Pereira de Amorim

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : Liliane Pereira de Amorim
DATE: 24/11/2025
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: (https://meet.google.com/wka-mkht-fie
TITLE:

FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO DIFFERENCE: the land policy of the state of Piauí in the processes of regularization of the territories of traditional peoples and communities

KEY WORDS:

Traditional Peoples and Communities. Land policy. INTERPI. Fundamental right to difference. Territorial recognition.

PAGES: 200
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Direito
SUMMARY:

This doctoral thesis aims to analyze the fundamental right to difference within the land policy of the state of Piauí, focusing on the processes of regularization of the territories of Traditional Peoples and Communities. The construction of this thesis is based on the following theoretical question: How is the right to difference recognized in the processes of regularization of traditional territories? The traditional peoples and communities of Piauí, as in the rest of Brazil, exhibit a plurality of their own ways of life. Thus, the research highlights the need to recognize the difference produced by these traditional communities in the process of land regularization, as a means of protecting and ensuring equality of treatment. The theoretical foundation of this thesis stems from a reading of constitutionalism as a field in constant reconstruction. To this end, a qualitative method was adopted, employing various methodological procedures. An interdisciplinary bibliographical analysis was carried out, drawing on authors such as Menelick de Carvalho Netto, Maria Sueli Rodrigues de Sousa, Alfredo Wagner Berno de Almeida, Clóvis Moura, and Antônio Bispo dos Santos. Subsequently, a documentary and normative analysis was developed, focusing on the land regulations of the state of Piauí, as well as on administrative processes concerning the territories of traditional communities. Participant observation was also employed as an empirical procedure, allowing for an understanding of institutional practices in the territorial recognition of traditional communities. Accordingly, the thesis is structured into three chapters. The first chapter, based on a sociohistorical and legal study supported by bibliographical analysis of the occupation of Piauí’s territory and normative documentation, demonstrated that the recognition of the territorial rights of Traditional Peoples and Communities is the result of a long and violent process of struggle and resistance. The application of the Theory of the Right to Difference as Equality revealed the insufficiency of formal equality and the need to recognize the cultural and territorial specificities of these groups. Furthermore, the analysis highlighted the central role of women in the struggle for territory. The second chapter was developed from a documentary analysis of the current state regulations on territorial recognition, revealing the existence of a legal framework that, although formally protective, presents gaps and ambiguities that hinder its full implementation. The empirical findings, combined with bibliographical research on empirical categories, identified that the policy of territorial recognition is shaped and challenged by the empirical categories of difference produced by the traditional peoples themselves—namely, the epistemology of traditional peoples, race and ethnicity, and the relationship between land and territoriality—indicating that th effectiveness of the policy depends on the substantive incorporation of these categories into the administrative process. Finally, the third chapter, by analyzing the administrative processes of land regularization carried out by the Instituto de Terras do Piauí (INTERPI), showed that although there is a regulation that guides the procedures in a standardized manner, in practice, the land policy fails to maintain this uniformity, since each traditional group presents its own specificities. It is concluded that land policy must be driven by the recognition of difference as equality; otherwise, it tends to reproduce the same forms of violence perpetuated by a historically racist State.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 321346 - MENELICK DE CARVALHO NETTO
Interno - 1863338 - EVANDRO CHARLES PIZA DUARTE
Externo à Instituição - GIROLAMO DOMENICO TRECCANI - UFPA
Externa à Instituição - LIANA AMIN LIMA DA SILVA - UFGD
Externa à Instituição - MARIA CRISTINA VIDOTTE BLANCO - UFG