Os sem terrinha: Uma história da luta social no Brasil (1981-2012)

Abstract

This research takes as its starting point the recent history of the struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil: a social history of stubbornness, as expressed in the organizational forms of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), since the early 1980s. Understanding the MST as a result of social struggles against dictatorship, the legacy of the history of peasant movements and pedagogy in an act of liberation theology, this work examines the historical oddities in the context of intense social conflict, marked by the violence of landlordism and State. In this case, the study examines, from the sources, one particular violence against children, when the camp of the agrarian reform claims for a new territory of social struggle. This study concentrates its focus of analysis in the history of children from SEM TERRINHA movement (landless children), due to the construction of a collective identity. To this end, the printed sources are studied in their formative dimension, with emphasis on the arguments of the struggle for printing with a reference to the singular dimension of these children’s childhood in SEM TERRINHA Journal and Magazine. Here, we highlight the practices of distributing books and reading in the educational spaces of social struggle of SEM TERRINHA children, namely, the Schools of Rural Education, the Meetings, the Congresses, the Journeys of struggle and the Kids’ Riddles.