Identity dynamics in rural-urban-rural: territory and border among farmers in Rio de Janeiro

• Autor(a) principal: Figueiredo, Cecilia Moreyra
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: D´Ávila Neto, Maria Inácia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: INTERthesis
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/interthesis/article/view/1807-1384.2015v12n2p180

The municipality of Rio de Janeiro is considered eminently urban, since this is the condition of 100% of its population. However, the reality we observe pierces the official census data, and the family agriculture remains active in some communities. This study takes place in the psychosocial field from an interdisciplinary perspective and analyzes the dynamics of identity between farmers in the city of Rio de Janeiro, from the notions of border and identities of postcolonial theory. We focus on a community that features century-old stories of practices related to agriculture, which show strong collective awareness of its social role: it claim its stay in place as a Forest region preservation factor and attributes its work due the importance of their social relations. In this way, we will approach the topic from the theoretical perspectives of sociology of absences and ecology of knowledge, as presented by Boaventura de Sousa Santos.