Conflitos ambientais no Cerrado maranhense: Os Apãnjekrá-Canela no enfrentamento ao Matopiba.

Abstract

This research proposes to analyse the environmental conflict between enterprises linked to the Matopiba Agricultural Development Plan, which encompasses parts of the Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia states, and the indigenous people Apãnjekrá Canela (Jê-Timbira) in the center-west region of the Maranhão’s cerrado, from 2018 to 2021. To the methodological research procedures, a literature review was carried out on the notions of economic development, the institutionalization of Matopiba in the Maranhão’s cerrado, environmental conflicts in Brazil, the case of the Apãnjekrá Canela confrontation against economic agribusiness agents, an analysis of the territorialities was carried out with the support of members and database of the indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), interviews with indigenous leaders, also emphasizing the political articulations of the Apãnjekrá-Canela triggering the resistance and the Bem-Viver together with the Teia dos Povos and traditional communities in Maranhão as mechanisms of confronting the pair Capital/State.