EVALUATION OF THE LAND REGULARIZATION POLICY OF QUILOMBAR TERRITORIES IN THE STATE OF PIAUÍ: THE CASE OF CONTENT
Evaluation; Policy; Land regularization; Quilombola Territories.
The right of property of quilombola communities was only formally recognized a century after the abolition of slavery in Brazil, with the edition of article 68 of the Transitional Constitutional Provisions Act - ADCT of the Federal Constitution of 1988. The objective of this research was to evaluate the implementation of the policy of land regularization of quilombola territories in the state of Piauí from 2004 to 2017, based on the case study of the titling process of the Contente Community, located in the municipality of Paulistana - PI. We analyze the context of the implementation process of this public policy, identifying the factors that interfere in the achievement of the established objectives, based on Bourdieu's concept of life trajectory (2003), which has already been worked out by Gussi (2008) and Rodrigues (2011) in evaluating social policies in Brazil. The methodological procedures used were a review of the literature on the evaluation of public policies, land regularization, quilombos, ethnic identity and territoriality; documentary research on the said policy and its implementation in the case studied (STAKE, 2011; YIN, 2010); in field research, direct observation and semi-structured interviews with technical implementers and managers, representatives of the quilombola social movement and residents of Quilombo Contente. Despite the legal-institutional progress with the publication of Decree number 4887/2003 and the Brasil Quilombola Program (2004), which allowed the structuring of a specific sector in the Regional Superintendence of Incra in Piauí, implying better qualification of the demands and improvement of the actions to regularize quilombola territories, and with the creation of State Law number 5.595 / 2006 that for a given period has made titling processes on state lands faster, the results are still not satisfactory in the face of growing demand. Prevalence of delays and discontinuities in actions motivated mainly by the budget constraints of the last decade and the complexity of the federal legislation of quilombos land regularization. The implementation difficulties favor the increase of conflicts in the field with the advance of economic agents and the clashes faced in the parliament with the so-called "ruralist group", as it occurs in the Content Community, which during the titration process experiences a series of violations of rights guaranteed to the traditional populations before the installation of Transnordestina Railroad.