Challenges and methods to study rural patronage: the experience in the NMSPP: A experiência no Núcleo de Pesquisa, Documentação e Referência sobre Movimentos Sociais e Políticas Públicas no Campo – CPDA/UFRRJ

• Autor(a) principal: Galvão, Elisandra
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista IDEAS (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistaideas.ufrrj.br/ojs/index.php/ideas/article/view/384
• topic: rural patronage; National Confederation of Agriculture; NMSPP; military dictatorship; rural social movements; Patronato Rural; Confederação Nacional da Agricultura; NMSPP; ditadura militar; movimentos sociais no campo

This article addresses the difficulties involved in researching Brazilian rural patronage. It is based on the work done for the doctoral thesis Politics in the CNA: organization, mobilizations and insertions of rural employers in the state. The axis of the reflection involves the process of familiarization with the sources, the elaboration of new questions for the deepening of the proposed problem and the definition of the adopted methodology. Special emphasis is given to the period of investigation at the Centre for Research, Documentation and Reference on Social Movements and Public Policies in the Countryside (NMSPP), which consolidated itself as a reference in rural sociology studies after 2003. The center is linked to the research on social movements of the CPDA/UFRRJ. It enable access to interviews with leaders of organizations of rural entrepreneurs and material such as news clippings and bulletins produced by unions and social movements of peasants. These documents were central to the definition of study object of the thesis and to  structure the stages of the research. The objective is to discuss the various uses of these materials, at different times, and expose the advances achieved.