"Challenging the environmental crisis as a crisis of modern rationality: constitutional resistance of the quilombo Lagoas and the Pé do morro community".
coloniality; territoriality; resistance; quilombo; mining; environmental rationality
The present work seeks to analyze the environmental crisis as a crisis of modern rationality, from a constitutionalist perspective inserted in the Democratic State of Law. The reflection permeates the debate on the capitalist neo-developmentalist model that prioritizes economic enterprises and causes a series of inequality in the social sphere, with a discussion on the colonial origins in Latin America of this model and its perpetuation nowadays. The focus of the field research is Brazil, more specifically quilombola and traditional rural territory in the southeast of the State of Piauí, as well as its experiences of resistance to the model in a political, productive and legal way, as legitimate constitutional collective subjects and the construction of a rationality environment in a progressive way that challenges coloniality to perpetuate the expropriation of traditional peoples.