ABOUT PPGCSPA

Since July 2018, the Postgraduate Program in Social and Political Mapping of the Amazon (PPGCSPA) has been linked to the Anthropology Area with CAPES. Created in 2013 from a Temporary Association between the State University of Maranhão (UEMA) and the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), the PPGCSPA was initially linked to the Political Science Area maintaining this link during the first three years of its validity. It is noteworthy that the proposal of the PPGCSPA unfolded from the Sociology of Maranhão Interpretations specialization, which took place at UEMA in the years 2008-2009 and is directly linked to the New Social Cartography Project of the Amazon (PNCSA), coordinated since 2005 by anthropologist Alfredo Wagner In the Amazon, PNCSA researchers have, in the last decade, mapped and produced scholarly works on more than two hundred traditional peoples and communities, including indigenous people of different ethnicities, quilombolas, babassu coconut breakers, fishermen, riverine people, piaçabeiros, peconheiros, arumanzeiros. , chestnut trees, rubber tappers and people of terreiros. In the cerrado have already been cataloged communities of pasture, ebb, guaizeiros and quilombolas. It is an academic production with themes focused on territorialization processes, specific territorialities, traditions, identities, knowledge and knowledge, ethnicities, acts of state and social movements. The academic production of teachers and students is strongly directed to critical reflections on localized realities and ongoing social processes in the Amazon. The Amazon is configured today as a social space marked by conflicts and environmental problems resulting from intense territorial disputes involving different social agents. In the Amazon there are several ethnic groups that have their own ways of building their territorialities, which are not always considered by the current territorial order, nor by government policies and private economic enterprises. The officially produced mappings portray aspects related to the physical or subsoil environment and are constructed, in some situations, from the perspective of intervention and integration of traditional communities with the hegemonic model of society conception. The so-called “new social and political cartography”, unlike conventional cartography, aims to identify the modalities by which social agents trigger ethnic issues and construct their belongings, worldviews and knowledges, in interrelation with each other. different ecosystems. According to its terms, it considers these specific territorialities as providing visibility to the ways of creating, doing and living of different traditional peoples and communities. The current debate about the development model of the Amazon region introduces new questions about the perspectives that have been put into practice in the conception of measures related to such development. It allows, through this debate, to establish a constant dialogue with themes and problems such as: environment, sustainable development and historical heritage in order to enable critical analyzes regarding the formulations concerning "ecosystem", "sustainability" and "tipping". The critical analysis of such formulations, taking into account the forms of diverse territorialities experienced by the traditional communities, makes this region an important research locus that requires the activation of multiple methodological instruments that are appropriate for the identification of the specificities of the processes. territorial construction and the conflicts referred to therein. Currently PPGCSPA has invested not only in national but also international agreements; in the development of research projects; organization of events and training courses for different organizational forms, whether in Colombia, Kenya or the Chaco region (Argentina).

PPGCSPA RESEARCH LINES

A. SOCIAL CARTOGRAPHY, PEOPLE AND TRADITIONAL COMMUNITIES, TERRITORIALITIES AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE AMAZON.

The main objective of this research is to reflect theoretically on the Amazon in the light of the themes of Social Cartography, Territorialities and Social Movements. As an instance of knowledge production, the so-called social cartography shows the loss of hegemony of the conditions of production of cartographic knowledge, intrinsic, until then, to the state apparatuses. The cartographic products that result from autocartography experiences diverge from official maps by shifting the focus of natural frame analysis and its emphasis on aspects such as climate and relief for critical reflection on the dynamics of conflict situations and social antagonisms. . Such dislocation makes intellectual work evident and allows us to reflect on the need to relativize the objectivist principles of classification, which make us believe that the act of producing is anchored in the world of objects, that is, in an objective reality or given by nature. The cartographic products that result from social cartography and the field of dispute regarding the legitimate interpretation of the corresponding territorial spaces will be taken for analysis. In this sense, the research line Cartographic Social, Territorialities and Social Movements in the Amazon has as its contribution to the critical analysis about the conditions of cartographic knowledge. In seeking to know knowledge, the proposal of this line of research is opposed to the view of the positivists, who conceive the work of space division, materialized by maps, as a faithful reproduction worthy of a reality regarded as objective. In opposition to this approach, we propose to point out that the act of producing a map comprises an act of classification. When inquiring about the vicissitudes of cartographic production, the approach suggested by this line of research proposes to take as its object the logic of research and not the object of research. When it comes to experiences of autocartography, the cartographic products at stake do not dispense with specific identity criteria and ways of living, as well as giving visibility to systems of social relations marked by social conflicts - acute sometimes - and situations of antagonisms we are interested in analyzing. The conditions of production of these maps are thus referred to numerous forms of social mobilization, from organized social movements to different associative forms.

B. NARRATIVE, MEMORY AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES IN THE AMAZON.

This line of research aims to develop studies on the elements that make up the intangible cultural heritage, including practices, representations, expressions, knowledge and techniques, as well as objects, artifacts and places, recognized by peoples, communities or groups, as elements. of their cultural heritage, commonly triggered in the affirmation of their identities. The intention is to make use of oral and written narratives, in order to map the collective memory of peoples, groups and communities who experienced different occupation processes and who acted as important subjects in the delineation of forms of political organization in the Amazon. Such research will reveal the current living conditions and dilemmas of these peoples, communities and social groups regarding environmental, economic, social and cultural issues. The cartography of this memory will show symbolic productions that expose the official writing, given the set of social relations and conflict situations built in these processes of occupation, and may constitute a tool for the discussion of public planning in the definition of its policies.

C. STATE, GOVERNMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND TERRITORIAL POLICIES IN THE AMAZON.

This line of research aims to develop analyzes about the state, as a political power and as a field of dispute for the legitimation of development models under construction in society. Such analyzes will contribute to the understanding of government interventions aimed at the implementation of development policies, combined with private economic interests, in the Amazon. The critical reflection of these processes implies a permanent dialogue between different disciplines, in particular political science, anthropology, sociology and economics, aiming at a more accurate interpretation of the dynamics of capitalism, in its globalized face, in the Amazon region. Understanding the Amazon, as a plural space, both in the political, economic, social, environmental and cultural aspects, the Master Course in Social and Political Mapping of the Amazon, through this line of research, will also include in its focus of analysis the tensions that emerge from the implementation of private economic enterprises and development policies over specific territorialities. In this regard, the different forms of political mobilization that are structured in the dispute for such territorialities and for the recognition of the different forms of social life organization existing in the Amazon.

RESEARCH PROJECT

1. Social Cartography and Traditional Knowledge: teaching, research and cosmopolitan function (PROCAD - CAPES).
2. Development Strategies, Mining and Inequalities: Social mapping of conflicts affecting traditional peoples and communities in the Amazon and Cerrado (CLIMATE LAND ALLIANCECLUA).
3. Experience of creating Living Museums in the affirmation of knowledge and practices representative of traditional peoples and communities (CNPq).
4. “Social Conflict and Sustainable Development in Central Brazil” (FORD FOUNDATION).
 5. Cartography of Social Cartography: a synthesis of experiences (Ford-FORD Foundation).
 6. Social Cartography as a Strategy for Strengthening Academic Teaching and Research (FORD).
7. “Babaçu Social Cartography: social mapping of the babaçu ecological region” (- FORD FOUNDATION).
8. Brazil and Kenya: a comparative analysis. New Social Cartography of the Effects of Megaprojects and Government Infrastructure and Investment Policies in the Brazilian Amazon and Western Kenya (Ford Foundation).
9. New Social Cartography Project: Quilombos do Brasil (SEPPIR / UNDP)
10. New Amazon Social Cartography Project (PNCSA).
11. Among others (UNIVERSAL / FAPEMA; UNIVERSAL / CNPq; PIBIC; Academic Extension Projects)

GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To train staff able to reflect theoretically and from ethnographic research on the ongoing situations in the Amazon, with emphasis on state and private actions, as well as the representations and practices of social agents that trigger a collective identity.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

• Analyze intervention procedures as acts of power that permeate a diversity of experiences in contemporary Amazonia, especially the official cartographic representations and the rationale they offer to interventions;
• Examine and break down the contradictory elements of government plans, projects and programs;
• Analyze the representations about indigenous peoples, quilombolas and active social groups of this intervention, especially the so-called “traditional peoples and communities”.
• Investigate the interpretations of socioeconomic relations portrayed by academics, technicians and politicians;
• Critically reflect on the state's actions in the Amazon region;
• Analyze the representations, expressions, knowledge and techniques, as well as objects, artifacts and places, recognized by peoples, communities or groups, commonly triggered in the affirmation of their identities.

SELECTION PERIOCITY: Annual.
CONCENTRATION AREA: State Traditional Community and Territoriality in the Amazon. The area of concentration of the Master in Social Cartography and Politics of the Amazon establishes an interconnection between researchers and social agents, representatives of traditional peoples and communities, considering the mapping of ethnic, political, cultural, sociological, economic and geographical aspects.

COMPULSORY DISCIPLINES

• Social and Political Cartography of the Amazon.
• Anthropological Theory I.
• Anthropological Theory II.
• Research methodology.
• Dissertation Seminar.
OPTIONAL SUBJECTS
• State, Culture and Politics.
• Civil Society and Amazon Reality.
• Anthropology of Power: Decolonization, Politics and Identity.
 • Anthropology of Performance.
• Anthropology, Film Language and Heritage.
• Human Rights: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives.
• Social Thinking in Brazil.
 • Plantation and Peasant Emergency: Central and Mill in Maranhão.
• Ethnographic Practices.
• Contemporary anthropology.
• Violations of rights and damage in conflicts and socio-environmental disasters.
• Readings and Practices in International Planning: New Social Cartography and Collective Identities.
• Amazonian Literature and Amazonian Anthropology: Fields in Dialogue. • Basics of Classic Cartography.
• Territory and Power.

PERMANENT TEACHERS

Alfredo Wagner Berno de Almeida (UEMA / UEA)
Arydimar Vasconcelos Gaioso (UEMA)
Cynthia Carvalho Martins (UEMA)
Emmanuel de Almeida Farias Junior (UEMA)
Greilson José de Lima (UEMA)
Helciane of Fatima Abreu Araujo (UEMA)
Jurandir Santos de Novaes (UEMA)
Karina Bionde (UEMA)
Patricia Maria Portela Nunes (UEMA)
Rosa Elizabeth Acevedo Marin (UFPA)

Collaborating Teachers

Otávio Guilherme Cardoso Alves Velho (UFRJ)
José Sérgio Leite Lopes (UFRJ)
João Pacheco de Oliveira (UFRJ)
Heloisa Maria Bertol Domingues (MAST)
Camila do Valle (UFRRJ)

COORDINATION

Patricia Maria Portela Nunes (UEMA)

Cynthia Carvalho Martins (UEMA)

INFORMATION UEMA - Center for Applied Social Sciences (CCSA) Paulo VI University City s / n Tirirical Zip Code: 65055-97 - São Luís - MA Email: mestradocartografia@hotmail.com Website: www.ppgcspa.uema. Phone: (98) 2106-8600 (extension 8632)