Banca de DEFESA: PATRÍCIA MACEDO FERREIRA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : PATRÍCIA MACEDO FERREIRA
DATE: 19/08/2026
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: videoconferência
TITLE:

The Winds of the Serra de Sant’Ana: Wind Energy, Territorialities, and Conflicts in the Macambira Quilombo

KEY WORDS:

wind energy; Quilombola territories; socio-environmental conflicts; energy transition; sociobiodiversity; Macambira-RN.

PAGES: 233
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Antropologia
SUBÁREA: Antropologia Rural
SUMMARY:

The expansion of wind energy in Northeastern Brazil has generated socio-environmental conflicts that challenge the discourse of a sustainable energy transition. Based on an ethnographic study conducted in the Quilombola Community of Macambira, located in the Serra de Sant'Ana, Rio Grande do Norte State, this dissertation analyzes the impacts of the implementation of the Macambira I and II wind farms and the socio-political processes mobilized by the community in its struggle to secure its territorial rights. The research adopted a qualitative approach and an ethnographic method, combining participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and document ethnography. Fieldwork was conducted between 2022 and 2023 and was complemented, through 2026, by monitoring developments in territorial reoccupation initiatives and the land
regularization process. The findings show that the wind energy projects overlapped with long-standing land conflicts and the slow pace of land regularization, affecting land access and use, food sovereignty, health, labor, sociobiodiversity, and everyday community life. The absence of Free, Prior and Informed Consultation, as established by the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 169, reinforced power asymmetries and restricted community participation in decisions concerning its territory. In response, the community strengthened strategies of resistance, reterritorialization, and ethnodevelopment through collective organization and the valorization of traditional knowledge. The dissertation demonstrates that the effective recognition of Quilombola territorial rights is a prerequisite for a socially just energy transition, contributing to
anthropological debates and to the improvement of public policies on land regularization, environmental licensing, prior consultation, and territorial justice.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1219932 - FRANCISCA DE SOUZA MILLER
Interna - 1149572 - LISABETE CORADINI
Interno - 1274297 - PAULO GOMES DE ALMEIDA FILHO
Interna - 1360691 - RITA DE CASSIA MARIA NEVES
Externa à Instituição - CÁRMEN LÚCIA SILVA LIMA - UFPI
Externa à Instituição - MARISTELA OLIVEIRA DE ANDRADE - UFPB