Sustainable Development and Environmental Crisis : Citizenship Participative Exercise Before the Agrarian Question in the right perspective

• Autor(a) principal: Maia, Fernando Joaquim Ferreira
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Conpedi Law Review
• Texto Completo: https://www.indexlaw.org/index.php/conpedireview/article/view/3450
• topic: Participatory Citizenship; Sustainability; Environmental crisis; Agrarian question.; Cidadania participativa; Sustentabilidade; Crise ambiental; Questão agrária.

This paper will address the political participation of peasants in the struggle for land reform in Brazil as an exercise of citizenship for a real democracy in the countryside. The main objective is to demonstrate that, even going against the economic development model that centralizes the ownership of land on a minority of the population, the peasants, in an act of resistance, are able to organize and confront the dominant powers (landlordism and judiciary) in pursuit of democratization of land. Started from the following questions: The expropriation of unproductive properties contributes to sustainable development? How property occupation occur? How the Judiciary Power react to agrarian conflicts in Brazil? Methodologically, it was employed a national and international literature review of topics such as: environmental sustainability, social function of property, constitution and private property, human rights, democracy and citizenship to achieve the objective of the proposed theme.