AGRARIAN REFORM AND THE PRODUCTION OF LOCALITY: RESETTLEMENT AND COMMUNITY BUILDING IN MATO GROSSO, BRAZIL
Resumo
This paper investigates processes of place-making and community
formation following agrarian reform resettlement in Brazil. Based on
case studies conducted between 2002 and 2004 in several settlements
organized by the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) in
the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, I argue that resettlement through
agrarian reform in Brazil is a process of intentional community-building
through resettlement and emplacement. Ethnographic data from one
settlement, Antonio Conselheiro, shows that land recipients passed
through a series of physical movements [displacement, occupation,
encampment, settlement] that shape the production of locality, or what I
refer to here as emplacement. I discuss key social processes that
contribute to emplacement: the transition from individual to imagined
community, from imagined community to collectivity, and from
collectivity to place-based community.
Palavras-chave
MST; Mato Grosso; agrarian reform; resettlement.
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