AUTONOMOUS QUILOMBOLA CONSULTATION PROTOCOLS: DISCURSIVE EXCLUSION AND DEMANDS FOR RECOGNITION
Prior Consultation; Quilombos; Self-Determination; Traditional Communities; Coloniality.
The research analyzes autonomous Quilombola protocols of prior, free, and informed consultation and consent as instruments of resistance and rights affirmation in the face of persistent coloniality in Brazil. Its objective is to understand the motivations behind their development, examine the contents of the 26 existing protocols in the country, analyze emblematic judicial decisions regarding prior consultation, and ethnographically follow the construction of the protocol of the Picadinha Quilombola Community in Dourados/MS. The study combines jurisprudential, documentary, and field research. The theoretical framework articulates decolonial studies and critical legal pluralism, in dialogue with the categories of demands for recognition and civic sensitivity. It aims to demonstrate how the protocols operate as political and legal practices that confront discursive exclusion, strengthen selfdetermination, and affirm Quilombola demands.