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FROM COMMON POOL RESOURCES TO COMMON ASSETS: THE SELF-MANAGEMENT OF AFRO-DESCENDANT TERRITORIES IN THE AMAZON

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14501954

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Common Pool Resources, Self-Management, Afro-Descendant Communities, Common Assets, Governance, Brazilian Amazon.

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The paper adopts the Common Pool Resource and Common Property Regime Theories to analyze how two Afro-descendant communities in Brazilian Amazon have built different structures of power-sharing, as evidenced by their self-governance, self-organization, and self-management practices. It focuses on the incidence of rules and biophysical and material conditions of communities. The research is based on the Casing Method (Ragin, 1992) with data gathered from semi-structured and unstructured interviews and documentary analysis. The article demonstrates that social constructions result from influences of institutional arrangements, official and informal rules, and the environmental and material communities’ conditions. Afro-descendants begin with a notion of a collective based on ethnic identity while at the same time they assume the territory institutionalized by the state. In symbolic terms, Afro-descendants individualize and share common pool resources with the workforce in specific production processes that combines the logic of market and survival and social reproduction.

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FROM COMMON POOL RESOURCES TO COMMON ASSETS: THE SELF-MANAGEMENT OF AFRO-DESCENDANT TERRITORIES IN THE AMAZON. (2024). Fundamentos, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14501954