Nas franjas da história: singularidade e distinção na constituição da Liga Camponesa de Matinhos na terra dos Carnaubais – Piauí

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Damião Cosme de Carvalho
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19982
• topic: Camponeses - Revoltas; Camponeses - Piauí, PI; Ligas Camponesas - Brasil; Peasants; Peasant League; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, agrarian reform in Brazil fell on the national agenda as an urgent and pressing need. Among the different political and social actors who defended it and those who rejected it, there was a point of convergence: the misery and abandonment of the rural man, as well as the immediate need to solve it, in the danger of the nation being destabilized By a great social revolution. The peasant leagues received from the press, from other political subjects active in the period, and also from memory, the symbolic meaning of this attestation of social upheaval in which Brazil and, particularly, the northeast experienced. Anchored in the importance of this moment for the History of Brazil and Piauí in particular, the core objective of this research is to analyze the process of formation of the Peasant Leagues in the State, based on the successful, singular and distinct experience of the League of Matinhos in the land of the Carnaubais. In this perspective, the analysis is based on the constitution of this social movement based on the systematic struggle of rural workers who have been able to forge forms of organization and resistance capable of opposing the unilateral dictates of landlords and the state as historical agents in the struggle for political, By rights and against any experience of social demotion. I argue that these absolutely unique historical experiences of these subjects were fundamental for the creation of the leagues in Piauí from, mainly from the Government of Chagas Rodrigues in the late 1950. and early 1960. In this approach structured from a renewed theoretical framework, whose concepts and categories provided elements that prioritize historical dynamics, not static portraits of reality that, because they are formulated as watertight models, never existed, I try to emphasize the question of land, Debate on agrarian reform in Piauí, tensions between local power groups, including highlighting the Catholic Church's action and the daily struggle for access to land, most often without any mediation of the state legal apparatus. The analysis is based on oral sources, hemerográficas, judicial processes and in the available academic bibliography on the subject and object. Regarding the theoretical references, I emphasize the importance of the concept of experience elaborated by EP Thompson, applied as an instrument to discuss the ways in which the subjects of this research understood the reality in their surroundings, and became main actors of this plot aligned in a time saturated with Agoras, to build expectations of social and political transformation framed by the hope of accessing and conquering the land