Identity, Territory and Land Conflict in Brazil

Sullivan, LaShandra

doi:10.1111/dech.12010

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“…These different understandings of the value of land cast resistance against land grabbing in a cultural dimension, as people organize themselves along ethnic or indigenous lines and refer to traditional cultural and spiritual values in support of their claims (Alonso‐Fradejas, ; Brent, ; McAllister, ; Sullivan, ). Indigenous identity, however, is not necessarily a historical given.…”

Section: Missing Links: Connecting Against Land Grabbingmentioning

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Organizing against Land Grabbing in Cambodia: Exploring Missing Links

Verkoren¹,

Ngin²

2017

Development and Change

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Using a case study of Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) in Cambodia, this article adds to emerging literature on local responses to land grabbing. While much of this literature has focused on political opportunity structures, this article looks at the agency of local groups organizing in response to land grabbing. Noting that organization and connections have been ‘missing links’ in the literature, the authors draw on thinking on collective action and social networking. Their findings highlight the importance of identity politics in the development of movements responding to land grabbing. Transnational discourses and external support also play a significant role in local responses to land grabbing in general, and in the modest success achieved by the PLCN in particular. All this complicates the traditional understanding of political opportunity structures and calls for a more dynamic approach.

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Section: Missing Links: Connecting Against Land Grabbingmentioning

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Organizing against Land Grabbing in Cambodia: Exploring Missing Links

Verkoren¹,

Ngin²

2017

Development and Change

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“…This included the right to health (the creation of the SUS) and the positive recognition of the indigenous population and their specificities regarding education, cultural, and social and cultural organization. Despite being guaranteed by the Law and present on maps, the demarcation of indigenous lands is still subjected to internal conflicts [14][15][16], regional quarrels [17][18][19], and legal and historical disputes [16,19,20] surrounding specific governmental policies that can effectively ensure full equity.…”

Section: Indigenous and Quilombola Peoples In Brazil: Historical Dispmentioning

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Territories Under Siege: Risks of the Decimation of Indigenous and Quilombolas Peoples in the Context of COVID-19 in South Brazil

Polidoro

Mendonça

Meneghel

et al. 2020

J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

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The current health, political, and environmental crisis ongoing in Brazil and the advances of the impacts of COVID-19 in traditional populations (as indigenous and quilombolas) are not yet prioritized in the scientific production about the novel coronavirus. We performed spatial correlation analysis to map the clusters and outliers of COVID-19 in South of Brazil to identify indigenous and quilombolas communities impacted right now in the pandemic. We show that communities located nearby metropolitan areas and mid-sized cities are the most impacted by the COVID-19 and the advance of the transmission to inner states may intensify the ongoing historical process of elimination of indigenous and quilombolas people. We call for a global response to the indigenous and quilombolas situation in Brazil, pointing to the need of more analysis in the country;

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“…We exemplify the proposed framework using the Cerrado biome within Mato Grosso do Sul state in Brazil, a region characterized by dramatic recent conflicts between indigenous people, agribusiness, and conservationists (Sullivan 2013). The Cerrado biome is a global hotspot of biodiversity (Myers et al 2000), and supports a mosaic of open and forested vegetation formations that cover 23% of the Brazilian territory.…”

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Incorporating resilience and cost in ecological restoration strategies at landscape scale

Stefanes¹,

Ochoa-Quintero²,

Roque³

et al. 2016

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ABSTRACT. The restoration of deforested or degraded areas can contribute to biodiversity conservation and global resilience given the current and projected impacts of climate change. In recent years, a robust array of ecological restoration frameworks have been generated to address restoration challenges at large scales in different ecosystems around the world. Unfortunately, the costs associated with restoration at such scales greatly challenges the implementation of such frameworks. We used landscape ecology principles with multicriteria optimization of landscape resilience and agricultural productivity as a way to mitigate the trade-offs between production and restoration. We used the Cerrado biome in Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil, as a case study to apply our framework. We compared three scenarios: minimal legal compliance (MLC); selection by ecological resilience (SER); and selection by restoration cost (SRC). Our results show that increasing the restoration target from MLC (25%) to SER (30%) means moving from 968,316 to 1592 million hectares, which can represent a huge opportunity cost for agricultural lands. However, because costs and resilience are not homogeneously distributed throughout landscapes, we can select areas of intermediate ecological resilience and low cost, for the same restoration area target. This process can reduce potential conflicts and make restoration a more viable process. Our results also reveal some areas that can be particularly important for reconciling agriculture and landscape restoration. Those areas combined high and intermediate resilience and an above average profitability. This could mean that increasing restoration in this area could be very expensive, assuming that our proxy roughly represents the restoration implementation cost. However, there is another important message here, that some areas can be productive at the same time that they maintain levels of resilience above the legal compliance, which facilitates win-win scenarios in human-dominated landscapes.

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Identity, Territory and Land Conflict in Brazil

Cited by 21 publications

References 15 publications

Organizing against Land Grabbing in Cambodia: Exploring Missing Links

Organizing against Land Grabbing in Cambodia: Exploring Missing Links

Territories Under Siege: Risks of the Decimation of Indigenous and Quilombolas Peoples in the Context of COVID-19 in South Brazil

Incorporating resilience and cost in ecological restoration strategies at landscape scale

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