Traditional communities of fundo de pasto and the environmental justice

This paper aims to identify the form of organization and production in the communities of “Fundo de Pasto e Fecho” in the northeast part of Bahia, its similarities with the conservational current denominated environmentalism of the underprivileged people, famous ecologist or movement of Environmental Justice. To achieve this goal, we will be using reflections around the forms of existence, economic, social and cultural organization of these traditional communities, highlighting the strategies of struggle and survival, as well as the construction of new paradigms of development and coexistence with nature, allied to the concept, principles, and purposes of the environmentalism of the underprivileged people. This phenomenon of self-recognition as traditionally constituted communities and the acquisition of collective consciousness as rightful agents on their territories that also become in this paper objects of analysis and reflection seeking to insert themselves in the contemporary debate about territoriality, empowerment, and environment ecologically just and human.