Estratégias de resistência das famílias camponesas no Assentamento Amparo (Itahum/Dourados-MS)

Abstract

The research was fulfilled in the Amparo Settlement, in the district of Ithaum, in the municipality of Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, and sought to identify and analyze strategies and resistance of the peasant families to stay in the work land. The land that guarantees them "freedom" and social reproduction as peasants. Living and creating strategies for staying in lots in rural settlements has been a great challenge for peasants due to the "pressure" that exists about the land in the capitalist logic. In this way, we start from the historical rescue of the socio-spatial formation and the struggle for the land in this space in the context of the capitalist advance in agriculture. The work has as its main axis the thesis of peasant recreate, because we understand the development of capitalism as unequal and contradictory in its essence. In contradiction, capital opens gaps for the peasant to persist in history by means of the mechanism of subjection of the income of the land. The settlement as a fraction of the capitalist territory represents the conquest of the land by the peasant struggle. The methodology used consisted of a bibliographical survey, field research with oral interviews and data collection through the application of an electronic questionnaire. Listening to the protagonists of the struggle for land and in the land, in this settlement, allowed us to perceive the limitations of public policies and the need to strengthen actions among peasants themselves by collective guidelines. The empirical results demonstrate the need to create sustainability conditions for families to remain on the land, and, above all, a new awareness of the production of food for democratization of access to land.