The Relation Between the Reduction of Land Occupations and the Changes in Confrontation over Agrarian Reform in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Araujo, Ramon Torres
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Insurgência
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/insurgencia/article/view/18920
• topic: Ocupação de terra. Repertório de ação. Reforma agrária. Confronto político.; Land occupation. Repertoire of action. Agrarian reform. Contentious politics.

This work has as objective to understanding the reduction of land occupations in Brazil. In the decade 1990’s, there was a trend to increase the number of occupations, reaching the peak in 1999, when there were 856 occupations. But from 2005 this trendhas reversed, reaching the mark of 116 actions in 2010. It was found that this phenomenon is related to four social conditions that express the changes in the confrontation over agrarian reform: the change in the political orientation of the organization that mostly employed this repertoire; the emergence of governments that do not recognize the occupation as a legitimate repertoire;the reduction of a contingent ofpeople to engage in these actions; the weakening of the support of relevant actors to the agrarian reform banner.