Trajetórias de jovens do perímetro Curu-Paraipaba: histórias de rupturas e continuidades ao longo de gerações

Abstract

The present study parts from the following question: how does the youth of the Curu- Paraipaba Perimeter weave their trajectories in a context where family farming, the purpose of being in the Perimeter, has been suffering modifications/ruptures that might configure the discontinuity of this traditional model? In front of the aging of the settlers secured by the Departamento Nacional de Obras Contra as Secas (DNOCS), the "selling" our abandomnent of agricultural units, the difficulties related to agricultural production, could it be the end of family farming in the context of the studied Perimeter? To develop this research, we began from the narratives of settlers and their children about their arrival to the Perimeter, the adaptation, the strangement, in other words, the daily life experienced by them during the time of the cane. Through these narratives it was possible to realize that, during this time, the settlers underwent a process of socialization fomented by the authoritative power of DNOCS. In the ambit of the family, socialization was marked by the intense agricultural work, the involvement of all the members (including women, teenagers and children), approximating them to a tradicional farming model. The "agricultural work" was an educational model that was essencial to the formation and transmission of knowledge from parents to their children, that is, the work is related to a moral aspect. Through a preliminary analysis of the narratives of settlers's children, it is possible to infer that the model of "being a farmer" has been changing. One of the reasons is the restrict size of the lot area, which causes the children to look for other forms of survival. Those areas, destined to only one family, were changed too by an "inheritance division" between the heirs. During the thesis' discussions we saw that the Perimeter went through significative transformations on the time of the coconut, especially because the end of barriers by the implementation of the Sol Poente Road. Those configurations certainly reverberate in the trajectories of young people and outline their life projects. Other opportunities of insertion in the world of work are presented to these young people with the access to school favoring and encouraging the elaboration of projects that can signify a rupture with traditional family farming work. Being a farmer or "working in the farm" is the punishment of who doesn't study, the fate doomed by the meritocracy. However, the juvenile experiences are diverse and plural and depend on the conditions that perpass the invididual will of those subjects, that is, the desired future isn't always the possible future, it isn't always that the projects fomented by school and encouraged by the parents (a higher education) is viable to all the youths, children or grandchildren of farmers.