Cultural Capital and Identity Recognition of Traditional Peoples in Brazil: Analysis of Public Policies and Sociological Institutionalism

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Brazil stands out for its biodiversity of fauna, flora and, especially, ethnic-cultural issues, highlighting the Cultural Capital of Traditional Villages and Communities – PCTs. The PCTs, as of Decree 6,040/2007, are configured as groups that are organized and recognized culturally and socially using their own territory for the organization of their social, cultural, religious, economic, etc. values. In this way, the objective is to analyze cultural capital by means of the main cultural public policies aimed at PCTs in Brazil based on the Sociological Institutionalism approach. Below, the question is: how do Brazilian public policies work on the process of valorization and cultural reconhecimento of Traditional Peoples and Communities? As such, it is a qualitative, documentary and bibliographical research, with an interdisciplinary review of knowledge and based on Bardin's discourse analysis (1977). The analyzed data confirm that the cultural capital of the PCTs is parked and, at times, ignored by the point of the concrete rights already provided for in legal diplomas, observing that in light of neoinstitutionalism of the Sociological type, the State institution has failed to reaffirm its identity, ethics and culture of these specific groups.

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  • Giliarde Benavinuto Albuquerque Cavalcante Virgulino Ribeiro Nascimento e Gama, Federal University of Tocantins

    PhD student at the Federal University of Tocantins (expected completion date, 2025/1). In negotiations to begin a PhD in Law at the University of Bologna (Italy) or the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) in 2025/2026. He has special doctoral studies, obtaining grade A, at the University of São Paulo (USP), University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo State University (UNESP) and the Federal University of Goiás (UFG). He has a Master's degree in Communication and Corporate Law from the Postgraduate Program in Communication and Society at the Federal University of Tocantins - UFT. He has specializations in Criminology, Criminal Law and Procedure, Labor Law and Procedure, and Tax Law and Tax Procedure. Graduated in Law from the Federal University of Tocantins - UFT. Graduated in Pedagogy from the Paulista Faculty of Technology (SP). He is an ad hoc consultant/reviewer for the ESMAT Journal (Tocantins Higher School of Magistracy), Humanidades Inovação Journal (Tocantins State University) and Brazilian Journal of Penal Enforcement (RBEP of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security Brazil). Approved by the OAB/2018 (Tocantins). He works as a researcher at the Law and Politics Group (UNITINS/CNPq), in the lines of Empirical Research and Judiciary in Latin America and Constitutionalism and Democracy in Comparative Perspective; and Family Farming and Agribusiness (UNITINS/CNPq). He was a researcher at the Study Group on Human Rights, Violence, State and Society - (DIHVES/UNITINS/CNPq), working from April 5, 2017 to June 7, 2019, and at the Center for Studies in Languages ​​and Public Policies for Education (NELPPE/IFTO/CNPq), working from August 25, 2014 to December 27, 2023. He has legal practice in Civil Law, family, successions, childhood, youth; civil and criminal rogatory; Business Law, bankruptcy and judicial recovery of companies (TJTO). In addition, he has experience in Administrative, Criminal, Criminal Procedural and Criminal Enforcement Law as a procedural attorney for the Directorate of the Paraíso do Tocantins prison (2018 to 2021) and legal-administrative advisor to the Penal System. He was president of the Disciplinary Council for Prisoners (2018 to 2021) and special legal advisor to the Board of Directors of the Regional Penal Unit III (2018 to 2021). Former banker. Former head of the Penal Registry Office. Former President of the Permanent Commission for Administrative Proceedings of the Penal Police of Tocantins (Regional III). Former member of the Human Rights Observatory of the Catholic University Center of Tocantins. Awarded for two consecutive years with the Francisco Filho da Silva Young Scientist Award by the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Tocantins. He was a Master Professor of Law at the State University of Tocantins, at the Faculty of Legal Sciences of Paraíso do Tocantins FCJP, at the Higher School of Penitentiary and Prison Management of Tocantins ESGEPEN/TO and in the postgraduate course in Law and Criminal Procedure (Specific Institute of Teaching, Research and Postgraduate Studies - Gurupi-TO). He has teaching experience in Law, Accounting and Agribusiness, having been responsible for the chairs of Business Law, Law Applied to Agribusiness, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law, Civil Law, Tax Law, Criminology, Forensic Psychology, Legal Medicine and Special Criminal Legislation. He is a professor at UNEST, ESGEPEN and is currently also the Legal and Correctional Coordinator of the Penal System of Tocantins. He has published articles in Europe and Brazil, as well as book chapters and books (available in Brazil, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, USA, South Korea, Japan, Canada).

  • Nilton Marques de Oliveira, Federal University of Tocantins

    PhD in Regional Development and Agribusiness - Western Paraná State University, Brazil

  • Monica Aparecida da Rocha Silva, Federal University of Tocantins

    PhD in Social Sciences from UnB (2007). She completed her post-doctorate (2017) and doctoral internship (2006) at the Universidad Nacional Autonóma do México - UNAM. She has a Master's degree in Latin American Integration from USP (1999) and a degree in Social Sciences from UFG (1996). She is currently a professor and researcher at the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT), assigned to the Postgraduate Program in Regional Development (academic), the Postgraduate Program in Public Policy Management (professional) and the undergraduate course in Economic Sciences. Previously, she held the position of coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Regional Development (PPGDR) UFT (2013-2015), during which time the project for the doctoral course in Regional Development was submitted and approved by CAPES. She was part of the team that developed the Project for the Professional Master's Degree in Public Policy Management (GESPOL)/UFT. She implemented and coordinated the DINTER in Sociology (UNITINS-UnB) at the State University of Tocantins (2008-2010). She is a member of the National Association of Education Administration (Anpae) and director of Anpae, Tocantins state section. She has been the leader of the Study and Research Group on Public Policies and Development (GEPPD), registered in the Directory of Research Groups in Brazil/CNPq, since 2010. She is the Coordinator of the Public Policy Laboratory (LabPP)/UFT. She has been a member of the Mercosur University Forum (FoMERCO) since 2007. Her research interests include Public Policy, with an emphasis on Evaluation of Government Policies and Programs. Her main areas of research include studies on the following topics: Institutional performance and public policies; Intergovernmental Relations, Federalism and Social Policies (focusing on educational policies and conditional cash transfer programs); The role of the University in Regional Development; Public Policies for Inclusion and Equity in Higher Education in BRICS countries; The legislative power of Tocantins and Regional Development.

  • Lucas Braga da Silva, Federal University of Tocantins

    Graduated in Logistics Technology from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Tocantins (2016). Graduated in Administration from the Federal University of Tocantins (2019). Postgraduate in Higher Education Teaching from the Northern University of Paraná (2017). Master in Communication and Society from the Federal University of Tocantins (2019). PhD student in Regional Development at the Federal University of Tocantins (2021). Currently, he is a professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Amazonas. Previously, he worked as a professor at the Tocantinense Institute of Higher Education and Research (ITOP), Faculdade São Marcos (FASAMAR) and the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Piauí. In recent years, he has dedicated himself to the following research topics: government communication, state capabilities, public value, digital government (electronic government + electronic governance), public service ecosystem, sustainable logistics and operations, and teaching and learning experiences in professional, technological and higher education.

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Cultural Capital and Identity Recognition of Traditional Peoples in Brazil: Analysis of Public Policies and Sociological Institutionalism. (2025). Fundamentos, 1. https://doi.org/10.63207/n6p6fr81