Justice in an Unequal Relationship? Negotiations Between the <i>Quilombo</i> Bombas and the Upper Ribeira State Touristic Park, Brazil

Thorkildsen, Kjersti

doi:10.1080/08941920.2015.1024809

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“…A long history of weakening traditional institutions has allowed elites to use economic incentives as leverage and control mechanisms, rather than as capital serving to improve access to natural resources and the allocation of rights. Several authors highlight that processes driving inequality are historically rooted, resulting in a lack of capacity, access or agency among certain groups and require specific attention to avoid reproducing similar injustices through conservation efforts (Adhikari et al 2014;Torpey-Saboe et al 2015;Tysiachniouk and McDermott 2016;Thorkildsen 2016;Pasgaard 2013). These historical inequalities and injustices frustrated the effect of governance arrangements that attempted to increase access and allocation to resources for local communities.…”

Section: The Failed Promise Of Benefit-sharingmentioning

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Access and allocation in global biodiversity governance: a review

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Dawson

Rabitz³

et al. 2020

Int Environ Agreements

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Access and allocation is one of the five analytical themes of the science plan of the Earth System Governance (ESG) project. Concerns over access and allocation are at the core of struggles and conflicts brought about by the often ineluctable trade-offs related to biodiversity conservation and the global, national and local governance systems that aim to contribute to global biodiversity conservation. Access and benefit-sharing mechanisms, integrated conservation and development projects, payments for ecosystem services or community conservation programmes have all tried balancing environmental objectives with concerns for the allocation of natural resources and associated rights within society, and for access to basic human needs. As a contribution to this special issue on access and allocation, this paper aims to contribute to the analysis of the relevance of questions of access and allocation to ESG by providing an in-depth review of the literature on access and allocation in biodiversity conservation at different scales. We describe how the concepts of access and allocation have been used and conceptualized in the literature produced between 2008 and 2018, and we discuss the two key issues which dominate the literature (1) benefit-sharing; and (2) the role of local institutions. By drawing on the trends and evidence from the literature, we consider the lessons for the next generation of ESG scholars and draw out some key policy implications to be included in the debates on the post-2020 strategic plan for biodiversity.

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Section: The Failed Promise Of Benefit-sharingmentioning

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Access and allocation in global biodiversity governance: a review

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Dawson

Rabitz³

et al. 2020

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“…At that point, research for PETAR's management plan was carried out, and the forest authorities again showed interest in carrying out environmental studies inside Bombas. ISA convinced Bombas residents to enter a negotiation process, with ISA and the legal entity of the anti-dam movement -EAACONEas mediators between the Bombas quilombola association, the Forest Foundation and ITESP (Thorkildsen, 2015). When this negotiation process started, the family that had positioned itself against quilombola recognition reacted by resorting to open threats and violence.…”

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“…Pacheco de Oliveira 1994, Almeida 2002, Arruti 2006, Leite 2008, Andrade 2015; but also in English we find a growing body of research on the politics and contestations associated with defining, redefining, and negotiating the concept of quilombo (e.g. Linhares 2004, French 2006, 2009b, Machado 2006, Penna-Firme and Brondizio 2007, Loloum and Lins 2012, Leite 2012, Farfán-Santos 2015, Thorkildsen 2015. 3 While building on published research along the axis of meaning and identity politics, which we believe is essential to understand the inherent complexities of any quilombo mobilisation to secure land rights in Brazil today, in this article we focus on how the recognition of constitutionally established quilombo land rights also imply the exclusion of individual land rights, and other politically defined land uses -in our case, 'nature conservation'.…”

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The contested nature of Afro-descendantquilomboland claims in Brazil

Thorkildsen

Kaarhus

2017

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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In Brazil, Afro-descendant quilombola communities were for the first time in history recognised as legal rights-holders to land in the 1988 constitution; one hundred years after the abolition of slavery. Drawing on fieldwork in the quilombo Bombas in the state of São Paulo, and review of relevant literature, this contribution explores the historical trajectory of the constitutional quilombo provision and how it has been translated into practice. Combining a discussion of the use of self-identification and the concepts of 'regulation', 'force', 'market' and 'legitimation' when analysing the dynamics of access and exclusion, we show how struggles over land are simultaneously enacted in controversies over the meanings of quilombola identity and its implications.

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‘Land yes, dam no!’ Justice-seeking strategies by the anti-dam movement in the Ribeira Valley, Brazil

Thorkildsen¹

2016

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Justice in an Unequal Relationship? Negotiations Between the Quilombo Bombas and the Upper Ribeira State Touristic Park, Brazil

Cited by 5 publications

References 20 publications

Access and allocation in global biodiversity governance: a review

Access and allocation in global biodiversity governance: a review

The contested nature of Afro-descendantquilomboland claims in Brazil

‘Land yes, dam no!’ Justice-seeking strategies by the anti-dam movement in the Ribeira Valley, Brazil

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