A política aeroespacial brasileira e o controle jurídico-político do espaço:a atuação do Estado brasileiro e a resistência local na defesa dos territórios étnicos de Alcântara

Abstract

Analysis of the forms of legal and political control of the Brazilian State, exercised to enable the implementation of the spaceport in Alcantara, and the organization of communities affected, composed of remnants of Quilombo to defend the ethnic territories. First, we make the conceptual approach of the state, listing to coercion and consensus as instruments of state control and legitimacy. Then-evaluates whether the Brazilian aerospace geopolitics and the process of implementation of the Alcantara Launch Center, nationalist project conducted by the military, which sparked major impacts on local communities and spurred the organization of resistance movements. It is stressed that the context of removals was prior to the enactment of the Constitution of 1988, which recognized the right of ethnic territoriality. We analyze the interviews with subjects participating in social movements in Alcantara, especially the joints of the Maroons in the building and strengthening of ethnic identity as an instrument of struggle for the realization of the right to territory and as a strategy to prevent further removals, before recent expansion projects of the Brazilian space design, marketing and interests involving transnational character.