Representações do outro e conflitos no uso da terra: o caso do PDS Virola Jatobá - Anapu / PA

Abstract

The main rechearch aims at analyzing conflicts about forms of appropriation of natural resources among peasant families, having as an empirical study the case of the Virola Jatobá Sustainable Development Project (PDS), located at Transamazônica area, Anapu city in State of Pará. Based on empirical data collected in field work, analyzed with the contribution of socio-spatial concepts such as Landscape, Catography and Territory, we tried to highlight the peasant representations about the Other and the causes of the internalized conflict in this rural settlement, focusing on expressed in the Areas of Alternative Use, destined areas to the productive pratices of settled families. As part of methodology for data collection, direct and participant observations were made in the field, semi-structured interviews, field work photographic records. In addition, we collected and analyzed spatial data for the creation of maps by the team of researchers of self-management Project, in wich we participated. As a preliminar result, it could be noted that conflicts between peasants are locally attributed to false dualisms, such a pioneer-novices, agriculture-livestock, and Virola Jatobá Association-Freedom of People Association, on wich diverse meanings and values are created, fragmenting the social relations among the peasant segments of the settlement. As a final result, we see that conflicts have their genesis in antagonisms between social groups with different relations with nature, demonstrating that in the PDS Virola Jatobá there are several territorializations under construction.