Can the subaltern mapping and focus on regional planning? Territorial conflicts and cartographic disputes in land regulating in Western Pará

Abstract

The act of mapping is an exercise of power that simultaneously represents and names space. In order to elucidate how the cartographic apparatus has been used in territorial disputes, this article is dedicated to the analysis of the land planning conducted by the Government of Pará in the set of Mamuru-Arapiuns plots in the late 2000 The idea is to understand how land allocation took place and to analyze the forms of action of traditional populations and social movements in the construction of a counter-hegemonic proposal for the use and appropriation of territories. Furthermore, it seeks to comprehend how participatory maps were developed and used in this context of territorial and cartographic disputes. To this end, bibliographic surveys and fieldwork are used. The disputes materialized on the maps reflect a terrain where the conflict takes place through the immeasurability of interests, in turn, guided by the way in which nature is signified and used materially and symbolically.

Keywords:
Land planning; Participatory mapping; Cartographic dispute; Territorial struggle