Banca de DEFESA: MARCELO PRACIANO DE SOUSA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MARCELO PRACIANO DE SOUSA
DATE: 30/06/2021
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência - Link: meet.google.com/pwm-vtrg-obg
TITLE:

Peasant trajectories and interconnections: Reflections in contexts of capitalist expansion of grain
production (Santarém-Pará)

KEY WORDS:

Grain cultivation. Peasant trajectories. Santarém

PAGES: 185
BIG AREA: Outra
AREA: Ciências Ambientais
SUMMARY:

The aim assigned to this thesis text is the analysis of processes related to introducing of grain cultivation in
the municipality’s territory of Santarém, through narratives constructed by peasant families who settled
there prior to these strategies of agribusiness expansion. In the process of constructing the analysis,
strategies mobilized by peasant families have been valued. After migrating to the region, when faced with
the project of access to plots of land, they boasted of the successful reproduction of their way of life. The
guarantee of land ownership, followed by the qualification of the own tenure, in accordance with the
judgments established by the domestic groups, enabled the construction of other strategies, which provided
their descending with favorable conditions for the reproduction of a life dissociated from productive
activities developed in the countryside. For this purpose, peasant families, i.e., those embraced by this field
research, have mobilized resources and efforts that enabled the introduction of their descendants in
professional qualification programs, later, they themselves operated in the construction of access to the paid
labor market. This labor market, normally reached and reproduced by the immigration of descending of
peasant families to other municipalities, was consolidated, especially in the capitals of the Northern region,
allowing relative redistribution of the success that remained in the previous management of the land plot.
In constructing the analysis of this object of study, bibliographic references and information built in
fieldwork have been mobilized, as well as interviews were conducted with several peasant families settled
in the Santareno territory. In addition, data provided by the Santarém health and education secretariats have
been incorporated, which are important to understanding the contexts of constitution and reproduction of
rural communities on the Santareno plateau. Finally, it dissociated itself from external and defeatist
evaluations, by which the movement out of the rural territory would have caused shanty towns processes
of the city of Santarém. Through the possibility of alternative and complementary interpretations about the
construction of strategies mediated by peasant families in Santarém, it was enabled to incorporate other
family projects, which permitted the reproduction of their in the highlighted territory, even if this required
redefining the future of their children. Among other reasons, the redefinition of peasant life trajectories
enabled the incorporation of several plots of land into the process of introducing the grain production of the
Santareno plateau. Thus, the insertion of grain cultivation in the region has stimulated, amid many other
alternatives, the consolidation of autonomous reproduction strategies of these families, and even of their
descendants who can reproduce their lives by entering the wage labor market, but also by developing
autonomous productive activities, affiliated to positions in public services or even as self-employed
professionals.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 033.093.987-49 - DELMA PESSANHA NEVES - UFOPA
Interno - 1190535 - JARSEN LUIS CASTRO GUIMARAES
Externo à Instituição - PEDRO FONSECA LEAL
Externo ao Programa - 1834414 - SANDRO AUGUSTO VIEGAS LEAO
Externo à Instituição - SIDNEI CLEMENTE PERES
Interno - 1776327 - THIAGO ALMEIDA VIEIRA