Perfil socioambiental do quilombo Dona Bilina, Rio da Prata, Campo Grande, Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

In thisworkwepresentthe socio-environmental profile oftheremaining quilombola community Dona Bilina, from Rio da Prata in Campo Grande, Rio de Janeiro, Pedra Branca State Park, in a socio-cultural, socio-environmentaland local sustainable development approach. We highlight the traditional knowledge of this community and how these traditional knowledge and practices establish the identities built from the reference of intergenerational knowledge transmission practices. Quali-quantitative research, of participatory observation of actions in the territory, identified through pre-structured questionnaires, conversation circles, workshops and individual interviews, how the Quilombo community Dona Bilina guards and transmits its knowledge; how it faced the new coronavirus pandemic, how the community perceives the socio-environmental transformations in the region; and how the identity of this community has been strengthened through actions promoted by the territory itself, which was certified by the Palmares Foundation in February 2017. The analytical categories that permeate the research are: health, territory, sociocultural identity, environmental education, and intergenerational memory . We address information related to community health and how they face the Covid-19 pandemic. We seek to identify the social profile of the residents of the Quilombo Dona Bilina, learning about intergenerational knowledge, their local transmission actions and traditional, cultural and health, environment and environmental education knowledge. As a result, an e-book was produced in partnership with traditional residents of the Quilombo Dona Bilina. The e-book was written in didactic language, addressing sociocultural aspects of the community, such as cooking, agriculture, traditional food plants, medicinal plants or “bush remedies”, as some say, and the occasional use of other elements of biodiversity as animal or mineral products, dealing with issues of belonging, identity and tradition from the practices of using elements of nature in favor of health and socio-environmental well-being in the community in activities that took place in the space of the community garden of the Quilombo Dona Bilina.