Everyday resistance in defense of "living well”: the case of the Lapa community, in Ceará’s badlands
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https://doi.org/10.36920/esa-v30-1_st04Keywords:
dams, deterritorialization, peasant resistancesAbstract
This article discusses contradictions involving social and territorial conflicts generated by a large-scale public water project, the communities affected by this project, and how they resisted this process, considering the historical context involving the development model imposed by capitalism in Latin America and government regulation, especially contemporary strategies to deterritorialize peasant groups. We examine the struggle by farmers in the Lapa community for the recognition of their territory and against violations of their rights after the construction of the Figueiredo dam in Potiretama, Ceará, Brazil. In our analysis, Latin American social theory and the sociology of conflicts dialog with empirical data obtained from interviews and bibliographic/documentary research conducted in 2018-2020. The farmers in Lapa were seen to utilize various forms of resistance: collective organization, activation of collective identities, occupations, social mobilizations, and maintenance of the traditional way of life. We conclude that the peasantry includes groups that resist and fight in the countryside against the fallacy of “a better life” in defense of “living well”.
elocation-id: e2230112
Received: 10.07.2021 • Accepted: 03.28.2022 • Publicado: 05.20.2022
Original article / Blind peer review / Open access
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