A memória camponesas em disputa : uma perspecitva dos direitos humanos na experiência do memorial das ligas e lutas camponesas

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the contributions of the NGO Memorial das Ligas e Lutas Camponesas (MLLC), bringing to light a reflection on the historical heritage of the peasant class and its challenges. In the Brazilian peasantry there are spaces in which human rights, memory, identity and historiographic study are necessary. The object of this research is in the peasant territory where the NGO Memorial das Ligas e Lutas Camponesas is located, in the traditional riverside community of Barra de Antas, in the municipality of Sapé, Paraíba, Brazil. To understand the importance of this non-governmental entity, we start from the process of building peasant thinking; We go through the context of drafting the project and implementing the Memorial (MLLC), as a site of memory for rural people and their historical challenges in producing this collective memory, in a disputed territory, which leads us to reflect on the contributions of the actions of the MLLC in the region. Given the complexity of narrative disputes that characterize historiography and memory, references were sought in institutions and cultural heritage of the peasantry, sites of memory, memory and history of the countryside. As for method, we opted for qualitative strategies in action research, seeking results that aim to offer an analysis that reflects historical objectivity - highlighting the historical importance of the Peasant Leagues - in which the role of the political and social memory of peasants is reunited with their class identity as citizens, subjects of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.