The traditional quilombola artisanal fishermen and shell fishers from Island of Maré, in Brazil, and its social, historical and cultural exclusion: the process of invisibility

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the traditional quilombola community of artisanal fi shermen and shellfi sh gatherers on Maré Island, in Brazil, and their social, historical and cultural exclusion, which would have resulted in a process of invisibility. The methods used were the use of bibliographic and documentary research. It became a qualitative research, for which a semi-structured interview was used, which was carried out through a script. It was also decided to use the case study method, having chosen the Island of Maré, located in Brazil, since Maré has been suff ering for decades due to local environmental pollution in and around the Island, it was discovered that the elitist profi le of the legal culture of the Brazilian State, perpetrated by a system of programmatic, but not eff ective, normative democratic law, has not allowed Brazil to face political and social problems, especially due to the dictates of the order dominant globalized neo-capitalist economy, who are diametrically opposed to the population of traditional communities. It was realized that in practice, the Maré Traditional Community in practice, has not found an echo in the voices that insist on demonstrating the exploration of its ecosystem, the marginalization of its way of life and culture and the invisibility of confl icts socio-environmental through which it passes.