Memória Social e Guerrilha do Araguaia

• Autor(a) principal: Reis, Naurinete Fernandes Inácio
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/3231
• topic: Memória social; Camponeses; Guerrilha do Araguaia; Social memory; Peasants; Araguaia Guerrilla; SOCIOLOGIA::OUTRAS SOCIOLOGIAS ESPECIFICAS

The Araguaia region, historically characterized by social and land conflicts, is today marked by the memory of the Guerrilla (1972-1975), since the changes occurring on the Araguaia lands as a result of this movement have wrought the need for organization of peasant movements who seek knowledge and recognition of historical experiences. The peasants of Araguaia, involved in a gunfight between The Communist Party of Brazil (PC do B) militants, who allegedly fought against the military dictatorship in the country and for the construction of a popular revolutionary government, and the military, who were supported by the ideological discourse of national defense and the ensuring of law and order, had their daily lives changed. In this sense, the present work has as its theme the social memory of the Araguaia Guerrilla, triggered at the boundaries of the regions of south and southeast of Pará, north of Tocantins (at the time, state of Goiás) and west of Maranhão and analyzes, through social memory, the perception of those involved, especially the peasants, on the Araguaia guerrilla and on the intervention of the same in peasant life. In this perspective, this study is aimed at understanding the fundamental elements of peasants‘ social memory on the Guerrilla as well as answering the following questions: What is the perception that the peasants had/have about the Guerrilla, about the armed forces in confrontation and their strategic political projects for the region and for the people? What motivations led the peasants to "contribute" to the Guerrilla or to fight against it? And how the memory of the Guerrilla works in peasants‘ everyday life? The methodological procedures used in this study consisted, besides the literature and documents, mainly on interviews with those who lived in the context of the Guerrilla. As a theoretical frame work we consider the assumption that the memory is socially constructed as a result of historical and social processes, being thus an active, selective, reflective and continuously constructed process. We were supported by the contributions of authors like Maurice Halbwachs, Frederic Charles Bartlett, Michael Pollak, Jacques Le Goff, Fernando Rosas and NildoViana, among others. Assuming that social memory should be analyzed taking into consideration its relationship with the historical and social conditions in which it is produced, the social memory was critically analyzed, which enabled us to confirm the hypothesis that the construction of memory on the Araguaia Guerrilla undergoes a process of dispute and conflict involving several forces and agents, and therefore that the perception of peasants on the Guerrilla is constructed from social determinations, as well as individual values and socially constituted feelings. Thus, it is configured as a space of contestation, resistance, meaning construction and class struggle.