The policy of silence of the Brazilian agrarian problem

A política de silêncio do problema agrário brasileiro

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https://doi.org/10.36920/esa-v27n3-2

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The article “The policy of silence of the Brazilian agrarian problem” undertakes a reflection on the marginalization of the agrarian reform theme over recent years, based on the pathways revealed by a truncated local recollection obtained through fieldwork carried out in 2015 and 2016, about a land conflict of the 1950s in Paraná. The hypothesis of the article is that the silencing of the Brazilian agrarian problem and the consequent marginalization and political fragility of peasant-oriented public policies are products of the “divided memory” associated with the way in which the expansion of capitalism in the countryside is produced and reproduced. The progress brought by the “businessmen” is exalted and, at the same time, ambivalence is expressed regarding the violence that has established these enterprises in these regions.
Keywords: struggle for land; silencing; public policy.

LERRER, Débora; FORIGO, Adriano de Almeida. A política de silêncio do problema agrário brasileiro. Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura, v. 27, n. 3, p. 483-508, out. 2019.

Submitted in July 2019.
Accepted in August 2019.

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  • Débora Lerrer, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) – Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

    Postdoctoral fellow in the Postgraduate Program in Public Policy and Human Formation of the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) with a sandwich internship at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) - Paris and Associate Professor of the Postgraduate Program -Graduation of Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture and Society of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (CPDA / UFRRJ).
    E-mail: debora.lerrer.cpda@gmail.com
    https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1909-349X
    http://lattes.cnpq.br/1374722652843192

  • Adriano de Almeida Forigo, Universidade do Vale do São Francisco (UNIVASF) – Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brasil

    Master's degree by the Graduate Program of Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture and Society of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (CPDA / UFRRJ) and Environmental Analyst at the Caatinga Fauna Management Center of the University of Vale do São Francisco (Cemafauna / UNIVASF).
    https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2612-3968
    http://lattes.cnpq.br/8509100233523801

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Published

2019-10-01

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Vol. 27 No. 3: Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura (october 2019 to january 2020)

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