Examining overlapping quilombola territories and conservation units in Jalapão, Brazil: a legal perspective

This study specifically focuses on the territorial conflicts generated by the overlap between the territory of Quilombola communities in the Jalapão region, in the state of Tocantins (Brazil), and four conservation units that currently overlap with these Quilombola territories. The analysis of the land conflict is structured into three essential parts: first, a social mapping of Quilombola communities in the region, based on information extracted from reports published in the Cartography Social Bulletin No. 05 of December 2016, exposing perspectives on the overlap and maps developed in collaboration with the communities; second, an analysis of legislation on specially protected areas in relation to the environmental currents that underlie the types of Conservation Units provided for in Law No. 9,985/2000 and the emergence of socio-environmentalism as an alternative to classical models of environmental protection; and third, a debate on the territorial rights of Quilombolas in the face of overlap with Conservation Units, addressing the challenge of rethinking the dichotomy between nature and culture through legal analysis of Quilombola territorial rights in the face of environmental protection policies implemented in the creation of Conservation Units.