Economia global e vivência local na Amazônia: mineração e campesinato em São Pedro, município de Juruti - PA

Abstract

In this thesis we present a survey of the interference suffered by the community São Pedro in Juruti, west of Pará state, since the beginning of the installation of the mining activity in the town. At the beginning of the 21st. century installing Juruti project by ALCOA, triggered a series of local and regional transformations that linked the rise to global mining economy. Our analysis focuses on rural areas, especially the processes experienced by the community São Pedro, who received from the licensing of mining projects for rural development, for example Pajiroba the project, the project of raising chickens and FUNBIO funded the extraction 's project EMATER. Featuring the form of implementation of these projects are designed to analyze how development policies for rural areas in Brazil, which has always meant the peasantry as a synonym for delay, a living space to be developed through investments in agricultural projects. This strategy which, according to our research, ignores the specificity of the peasantry in the Amazon, thus tending to limitations that go beyond agriculture, because confronting a complex way of life that has diversified to continue to exist.