De situações problemáticas a problemas públicos: reivindicações, críticas e denúncias no cotidiano de famílias “assentadas” e “quilombolas” no município de Camamu - Bahia

Abstract

Based on the survey conducted in a rural settlement field research of agrarian reform and “quilombo” community in the municipality of Camamu - Bahia, we initially follow the emergence of claims and justification of the residents themselves in situations of disputes and uncertainties facing the government, or rather, the needs and difficulties, which they configured in collective issues being publicly exposed and problematize in public scenes. From two different contexts, we try to understand how the actors obtained (or not) the attention and public responses and the different moralities driven to justify their actions and attitudes towards each other, to build speeches about their feelings of justice or even to guide their performances. Although they were visible and recognized to some extent by the state and its institutions that did not mean that their unique problems were addressed and resolved by public "prioritiy" actions directed to agrarian reform beneficiary public and quilombo communities. On the contrary, they faced with enormous difficulties of enforcement of legal provisions and public policies to their particularities, in addition to multiple costs derived of the claims that, in principle, are rights defined by the Constitution. Thus, the conformation of collective life in daily life, which rests on different concrete practices conducted by a multiplicity of logic and feelings, which allows a "common citizen" to be set up as a "subject of law".