O gosto amargo das frutas nas terras do senhor: a territorialização da produção capitalista e as disputas territoriais entre o agronegócio e o campesinato na região do Baixo Jaguaribe (CE)

Abstract

In the present thesis, we analyze how the territorialization of capitalist production happens spatially and the territorial disputes between the agribusiness and the peasantry in the Law Jaguaribe Region (CE) in the face of the process of modernization of the countryside. Supporting ourselves, within the Marxist tradition and the concept of the use of the notion of unequal development and combined of capitalism (OLIVEIRA, 1988, 1996, 1999), we try to understand how a territorial dispute between agribusiness and the peasantry engenders through the logic of accumulation By spoliation that has in turn brought the peasants of this region to the center of the conflicts of struggle and resistance against the different forms of expropriation - of land, water, food sovereignty, knowledge, among others. The transformations taking place in the researched area are interpreted as a consequence of a process that occurs on a global scale and that has been phased out in the region by the imposition of a technical rationality, bringing in its core processes such as the migration of the countryside to the city, Economic activities, changes in labor relations, the emergence of various social classes, class fractions, the struggle for land and water, new sociabilities, conflicts and ways of life. The methodology was structured around three operational axes: the organization of a bibliographic research on research in the Northeast region, the construction of a statistical database and the accomplishment of fieldwork.