Land, state and movements: the fall of agrarian reform seen from an ethnography in the Eastern Amazon
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https://doi.org/10.36920/esa-v30-2_01Keywords:
land reform, State and movements interaction, dismantling, demobilizationAbstract
Starting from a scenario that embodies the relationship of cooperation and conflict that movements and “the State” maintained for decades to implement agrarian reform, this article investigates how reform declined in southern and southeastern Pará, Brazil. This is done by returning to local classifications made by the actors in this mobilization during the struggle for land, especially describing what some call fragilization. The dismantling of state policies and agencies responsible for the agrarian issue (which has intensified since 2016) caused a rupture in the government’s relationship with the movements, making their demands less audible. The ethnography, however, shows that the decline of agrarian reform involves not only the impermeability of “the State” but also (considering the steadily decreasing number of occupations) difficulties faced by the movements inassembling the collectives that voice demands. As a result, the impediments created by the uncertainty and suffering currently experienced daily in many occupations must be taken into account.
elocation-id: e2230201
Received: Feb.17.2022 • Accepted: Jun.20.2022 • Published: Jul.7.2022
Original article / Blind peer review / Open access
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