Territorial and identity conflicts in the Urban Quilombo Community Pérola do Maicá, Santarém-PA
Urban Quilombo Maicá. Territory. Identities.
In the Lower Amazon region there are numerous Mocambos and Quilombos. These territories are not part of an immovable past as “that” that is left, but since 1990 they have been experiencing a new political moment marked by the ethnic emergence of these social subjects. In this way, this work follows the resistance actions of an ethnic group identified as an organization by quilombo remnants, with common origins on the banks of the Amazon and Tapajós rivers and that in the last three decades have outlined various coping strategies to deal with the natural threats and humans to its territory. This is the only urban quilombo in Santarém, which since 2006, in the face of numerous threats of removal from their lands, the community decided to create the Association of Remaining Residents of Quilombo do Arapemã Residents in Maicá (AMRQAMR). Based on oral history, this research seeks to answer the scientific question, namely: how were identities in the territory of Pérola do Maicá constructed and to what extent are they related to the growing conflicts in the only urban quilombo in Santarém? That said, from a qualitative approach, we seek to understand the process of formation of the urban quilombo Pérola do Maicá, as well as the conflicts that cross the constitution of their identities. From the point of view of the expected results, we consider this research pertinent because it contributes to socio-anthropological discussions about the urban quilombo Pérola do Maicá, as well as to the understanding of the sociability processes of the social subjects that form the Amazonian society.