COLONIZATION AND STRUGGLE FOR AGRARIAN REFORM IN BRAZIL (1950-1970)

Abstract

This paper presents a comparative study of the forms of collective action and demand for agrarian reform in Rio de Janeiro and Pernambuco and the state responses that implemented colonization policies between 1950 and the early 1970s. Based on a documentary analysis in archives of public agencies, unions, and ecclesiastical entities, it will be presented the mosaic of actors and their forms of articulation and organization, comprehending different strategies of action and expectations of peasant groups and the conceptions and forms of intervention articulated in the colonization policy by the techno-business-military complex. The investigation focuses on the official colonization policy as a mechanism for controlling territories and populations through displacement and the formation of subjectivities within capitalist rationality. It also focuses on the forms of collective action and identity of peasants who fought for the land they had already taken root in.

Agrarian Question; Colonization; Land Struggle; Enclosure