Blar i Brage NMBU på forfatter "Thorkildsen, Kjersti"
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Contesting conservation and development : quilombolas struggling for rights and resources in the Ribeira Valley, Brazil
Thorkildsen, Kjersti (PhD Thesis;2016:17, Doctoral thesis, 2017-07-06)This thesis sets out to explore how quilombolas, Afro-Brazilians descending from slaves, have responded to top-down conservation and development projects, and investigates different impediments to the realisation of ... -
The contested nature of Afro-descendant quilombo land claims in Brazil
Thorkildsen, Kjersti; Kaarhus, Randi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)In Brazil, Afro-descendant quilombola communities were for the first time in history recognised as legal rights-holders to land in the 1988 constitution – 100 years after the abolition of slavery. Drawing on fieldwork in ...