A espiritualidade e os conhecimentos tradicionais presentes no uso e conservação da sociobiodiversidade na Comunidade Água Boa II Uberaba

Abstract

Assuming the concept of socio-biodiversity means recognizing that the solution to any environmental problem presupposes the inseparability of social and biological relationships. Thus, as an example, we can observe the encounters of two peoples and traditional communities responsible for sustainable management practices for the use and conservation of sociobiodiversity, articulating resistance struggles against predatory actions on nature. And spirituality, not as a dogma or doctrine, but as a presence in the living and non-living world that transcends materiality, is a resource or principle that helps explain how people and traditional communities live together and not against nature. In this regard, we seek to understand spirituality and the presence of its brand as constituting two traditional concepts in discourses on the use and conservation of socio-biodiversity in Água Boa II, in the North region of Minas Gerais. This is qualitative research that used participant observation and semi-structured interviews with a resident of the community, Geraizeira, who was involved in the struggle for the implementation of a sustainable development reserve in the region. The struggles in defense of the two territories of the slaps in Água Boa II, raised, in addition to enthusiasm, an organic force, a sense of organization, since spirituality sees activating a sense of justice, equality and fraternity among the traditional German communities of the North of Minas Gerais. What we evidenced in our research is that spirituality gains prominence in the realization of the concept of sociobiodiversity contextualized by the typical use and conservation of the Cerrado by dust and traditional communities. The socio-biodiversity discussed here deals with an accumulation of practices and knowledge, meanings and a sense of justice and rights that we see being built and improved over generations. And despite the growing areas that favor preservation, Água Boa II, together with other partner associations, opted for conservation, but also for conscious and sustainable use based on the spiritual principles that govern the Base Ecclesiastical Communities (CEB's). Build new epistemologies that subvert the laws/rules of colonialism in order to highlight spirituality, which in the ontological sense is a South American truth and not a Eurocentric one.