"Quilombolas as "Green Collectives

Contesting and Incorporating Environmentalism in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil

Bibliographic Data

ID4749342
AuthorsRodrigo Penna-Firme (0000-0002-8724-3747, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro), E S Brondizio (0000-0001-9376-8366, Indiana University)
Year2017
Volume20
Issue2
Pages139-158
Publication date2017-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmbiente & sociedade (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1414-753X • E-ISSN: 1809-4422
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-4422asoc270r2v2022017
OpenAlexW2749960088
SCIELO_PIDS1414-753X2017000200139
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited14

By reconstructing major events that took place over the past 50 years in a small caiçara village situated within the Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar, São Paulo, this article explores the issue of environmentality, a process through which local people incorporate mandates of environmental governance and policies, progressively mobilizing and performing the position of environmental stewards. In 2003, this community was recognized as a quilombo reminiscent. The recognition led to a self-division of the community into two groups with around 35 families each. One group maintained a caiçara self-designation, whereas the other adopted a quilombola identity. Using qualitative data obtained through long-term participant observation and interviews with local residents, the article shows that over time, socioeconomic, environmental, institutional and cultural changes, culminating with quilombola recognition, have contributed to an ongoing formation of a "green collective" among quilombola families

Environmentalism · Ethnology · Geography · Participant observation · Political science · Qualitative research · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Law

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