O Assentamento Rio Perdido: MST e contradições do processo de territorialização camponesa

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the contradictions of the process of territorialization of the peasantry of the Rio Perdido Settlement, located in the municipality of Quedas do Iguaçu – Paraná, highlighting the relationship between the Settlement and the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST). This work starts from the theoretical framework inserted in the Agrarian Question Paradigm (PQA) to understand the object under study. In the first chapter, based on a bibliographic review, the relationship between the MST and the camps of landless peasants is analysed, taking into account the Social Movements as a Geographical Category, in this case, considering them as a Socio-territorial Movement. Then, the formation of the MST in Paraná and the history of the community in question are discussed. In the second chapter, the perspectives, projects and relations of the MST with the settlements are analyzed, as well as their transformations throughout the history of the Movement. The third chapter of the work analyzes the peasant way of life in line with the theoretical references and data collected in the field in order to systematize the distances and approximations between the productive and social organization proposal of the Movement and that of the settled peasants. The data collection methodology was based on semi-structured interviews with part of the families that have lived in the Rio Perdido since the occupation period. The research showed that the process of territorialization of peasants is marked by approximations and, sometimes, distances between them and the MST. This is motivated by the very organizational dynamics of their social and productive lives, first in the camp and later in the settlement.