The Territorialization the Movement of Rural Workers without land - MST microregion in geographical Campo Mourão, Paraná - Brazil

Abstract

The new model of agricultural production that was established in Brazil between the 1960s and 1970s was contradictory, as the public policies of rural development reinforce the social inequalities in the countryside with the deterritorialization of thousands of rural workers, especially in the state of Paraná. This process contributed to the organization of new territories and new territorialities. Likewise, in recent years, in the region of Campo Mourão, new territories have emerged in rural areas and, among them, the landless rural workers’: a part organized in the form of settlements, implemented by the municipal power in partnership with the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform, others in the form of camps that are transformed, through struggle, into settlements. For a better understanding of this movement of de-re-territorialization of the landless rural workers, we have addressed, in our research, the process of territorialization of the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) in the Geographical Microregion of Campo Mourão. The research had a theoretical and empirical character with interviews and statements from the landless rural workers of the settlements and camps Irmã Dorothy and Nossa Senhora do Carmo, located in the municipality of Barbosa Ferraz. These movements are forms of power and resistance to the order established in capitalist society.