Reflections on tourism as a development strategy: the Mumbuca community (TO, Brazil) and the possibility of ethnodevelopment

Authors

  • Rayssa Carneiro Santos Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Palmas, TO
  • Reijane Pinheiro da Silva Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Palmas, TO
  • Pedro Paulo Valadão Coelho Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Palmas, TO

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34024/rbecotur.2019.v12.6743

Keywords:

Mumbuca Community, Ethnodevelopment, Substantive Freedoms, Culture

Abstract

The present study presents as a problem issue the relationship between the Mumbuca quilombola community, located in Jalapão, TO, and processes associated with the economic and tourist development of the state and the region. The objective of the research was to understand the community agency in the context presented, specifically after the creation of the State Park of Jalapão (PEJ) in 2001. The research was carried out in 2018, through participant observation and revisiting the available theoretical production. Categories such as development, ethno-development, expansion of freedoms and culture as a resource, as well as authors who have developed works on the on-screen community support the problematization of the object and help to understand what traditional ways of inhabiting and thinking the territory need to be seen not as a hindrance development, but as possibilities to promote the expansion of substantive freedoms (SEM, 2010) and ethnodevelopment (LITTLE, 2002)

Author Biographies

  • Rayssa Carneiro Santos, Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Palmas, TO

    Mestranda em Desenvolvimento Regional pela Universidade Federal do Tocantins. Bacharel em Comunicação Social Habilitação em Jornalismo, pela Universidade Federal do Maranhão.

  • Reijane Pinheiro da Silva, Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Palmas, TO

    Doutora em Antropologia Social - UFRGS 2012 Mestre em Sociologia - UFG 2001 Professora da Universidade Federal do Tocantins - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento Regional

  • Pedro Paulo Valadão Coelho, Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Palmas, TO

    Mestrando em Desenvolvimento Regional pela Universidade Federal do Tocantins. Bacharel em Psicologia pela Universidade Católica de Goiás.

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Published

2019-08-13

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 4 (2019): agosto-outubro/2019

Section

Artigos

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How to Cite

SANTOS, Rayssa Carneiro; DA SILVA, Reijane Pinheiro; COELHO, Pedro Paulo Valadão. Reflections on tourism as a development strategy: the Mumbuca community (TO, Brazil) and the possibility of ethnodevelopment. Brazilian Journal of Ecotourism, [S. l.], v. 12, n. 4, 2019. DOI: 10.34024/rbecotur.2019.v12.6743. Disponível em: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/ecoturismo/article/view/6743. Acesso em: 5 dec. 2025.
Received 2019-02-27
Accepted 2019-06-24
Published 2019-08-13