Rumos, trechos e borocas: trajetórias e identidades camponesas de assentados rurais no sudeste do Pará

Abstract

In this dissertation, we discuss the social and economics trajectory of peasants who live in the Project of Rural Settlement Palmares II, located in the brazilian city of Parauapebas, in the southeastern region of Pará. We focuss our analisys in four dimensions of the peasant’s life: the history of migration, the history of the family, the history of the work and the history of education. That way, we intend to establish nexuses and differentiations of economic, social, cultural and political contexts, which those peasants had passed before arriving in the occupation. We try this way to unmask forms and strategies of expropriation that are based on the social and economic disqualification of the peasant, which also are strategies to deny the tipical knowledge of the peasants, capable to guarantee the autonomy of the means of production and, then, threatening the possibilities of accumulation and consolidation of unsustainable economic activities in the Amazon region. The resistance to the disqualification and the requalification finds strenght in the peasant signs and practices, that these individuals keeps throughout generations, as the ownership and the work in the land, the essentially familiar workmanship, the autonomy of the means of production and a life style that values a more direct relation with the nature.