Comunidades tradicionais do Norte de Minas: estratégias de luta e acesso a direitos territoriais

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis was to identify and examine strategies that has been woven by North mining traditional communities in defense of the traditional way of life and access to their territories. Such strategies involve interactions with NGOs, universities, social pastoral, prosecutors and local politicians. The National Policy for Sustainable Development of Traditional Peoples and Communities, established in 2007, defines these groups as subjects of rights, without, however, ensure the effective mechanisms of these rights. Thus, in the north-mining region, can be found strategies within the agrarian law (principle of the social function of land), in the environmental field (National System of Conservation Units -SNUC) and the action of the National Union SPU Secretariat with the land revenue of the Union and grant of use. The current framework presented in Federal legislation have stimulated social creativity and the relationship of these peoples and traditional communities in developing strategies to resist the expropriation process and territorials achievement. The social creativity of traditional communities put them in the fight before the legal vacuum of specific territorial settlement and imposes a variety of coping strategies and access to rights.