Dinâmica e evolução dos conflitos fundiários no espaço agrário paraibano

Abstract

The disputes over the land mark profoundly the formation of the Paraibano agrarian space. Since the 1970s, with the deepening of the exploitation of capital, a process of expropriation in the countryside has begun. Faced with this, workers have developed strategies of struggles to oppose this dominant model. In Paraíba, these struggles will in the first instance be organized by the Church and unions that have mobilized workers to resist the expulsion processes mainly in the Zona da Mata and Agreste. Meso-regions that suffered from the impact of state incentives on the production of sugar cane monoculture. Over time, the new form of reproduction of capital gave rise to more exclusion in the countryside, which consequently flourished new forms of enfretamento and organization, the birth of the MST and land occupations in the early 90's, was one of them. Thus, the main objective of this research is to understand the dimensions assumed by land conflicts in Paraíba from the 1970s onwards. In order to achieve the proposed objectives, we use the following methodological resources: a) bibliographic research b) data collection and analysis in the CPT and in the Struggle Database (DATALUTA), c) extensive internet search on site D) use of Excel and Philcartor software. The critical analysis of the data allowed us to understand the political and social rebuttals that each form of participation of the protagonist agents, state, owners and peasants are developed in conflicts over land.