A disputa territorial e o controle das políticas no território Cantuquiriguaçu – Estado do Paraná: a participação dos movimentos socioterritoriais e o papel do estado

• Autor(a) principal: Moraes, Vitor de [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/108654
• topic: Geografia; Politicas publicas - Parana; Movimentos sociais; Parana; Geography

This master’s thesis reviews the geo-history of the colonization process in the state of Paraná, Brazil, explaining the inequalities and contradictions specific to a microrregion known of as the Cantuquiriguaçu Territory. In particular, it analyzes the geographical and historical formation of the Cantuquiriguaçu Territory from the construction of its master plan, launched in 2003, through the activities of the Cantuquiriguaçu Territory Development Council (CONDETEC, in its Brazilian acronym), to the present day contradictions of a territorial development model shaped by disputes between the peasantry and agribusiness. The leading protagonist of this account is the Small Farmers Movement (MPA, in its Brazilian acronym), which performs in the region as an influential representative organization for the peasantry. According to our analysis, the MPA has been especially important in channeling peasant resistance toward the struggle to achieve better public policy for small farmers and agrarian reform settlement farmers. Through interviews with CONDETEC members, many of them peasant movement activists, the thesis presents the contradictions and achievements voiced by those most affected by regional policy. This study also counts on the support of quantitative information from statistics produced by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in the demographic censuses of 1991, 2000 and 2010, data from the Atlas of Human Development (PNUD, 2013)...