The Paths to Fight for Land: Historical Reconstruction of the Settlement "PDS Comunidade Agrária 21 de Dezembro"

Authors

  • Ana Carolina Hepe Teixeira
  • Vera Lúcia S. Botta Ferrante

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25059/2527-2594/retratosdeassentamentos/2009.v12i1.59

Abstract

This study tries to demonstrate the route of a group of people and their efforts towards a better quality of life, on the earliest beginnings of the fight for a plot of land. This paper aims to report the foundation process of PDS Comunidade Agrária 21 de Dezembro settlement in the Descalvado town, State of São Paulo, since the constitution of the first group and its journeys until the achievement of lands, and the consolidation of those families in the countryside. Thus, we look forward to better understanding this settlement foundation throughout the depiction and analysis of the fight for the land importance experienced by such families, and how that process whether influenced or not the collective allotment of this community. There was an attempt to emphasize the importance on the recovering of those families' memory, identifying the difficulties they faced since the first occupation until the appropriation of a plot of land, the several contacts established with politicians, religious, and syndical organisms up till now and in which areas those families had been or not benefited. The work is based on researches that deal with the memories of the fight for the land and workers' migration, mainly in this region of the interior of São Paulo. The methodological approach were obtained from daily fieldwork
data, photographs, periodicals and interviews with settled people who had
participated in the key moments of this essay.

Keywords: Rural Settlements; History / Memory; Fight for the Land.

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Published

2009-07-14

How to Cite

Teixeira, A. C. H., & Ferrante, V. L. S. B. (2009). The Paths to Fight for Land: Historical Reconstruction of the Settlement "PDS Comunidade Agrária 21 de Dezembro". Retratos De Assentamentos, 12(1), 291-304. https://doi.org/10.25059/2527-2594/retratosdeassentamentos/2009.v12i1.59

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