THE FIGHT FOR TERRITORY IN THE COMMUNITY OF BOA ESPERAÇÃO, IN TERESINA-PI

Abstract

The Boa Esperança community in Teresina-PI became famous in the fight for territory in the context of the Lagoas do Norte Program, a public policy that guided the removal of residents from the region. The work aims to answer: What are the contours of the struggle for territory in the Boa Esperança community? The general objective is to reflect on the struggle for territory in the community. The specific objectives are: to present the struggle for territory; situate deterritorialization in quilombola communities; analyze the struggle for territory in the community. The research is qualitative, exploratory, documentary, bibliographic and interseccional. The data collated are from transcripts of the Projeto Mulheres nos Terreiros da Esperança, a documentary that recorded workshops held in the community at the height of the conflict. We sought to identify the excerpts that most related to the theme. It is clear that the struggle for territory needs to be understood together with discussions about land and territoriality; deterritorialization has affected quilombola communities since colonization; the fight for territory has an intersectional and ancestral bias. The importance of the research lies in highlighting communities as producers of knowledge and struggles for territory as pedagogical.