El conflicto administrado: sobre ocupaciones de tierra, posiciones institucionales y saberes prácticos

Abstract

These paper refers to brasilian northeast and focused on one of the INCRA’s office, an state institution that take charge of the named “land reform”. The aim is explorer in this office the perspectives about land occupations, which are organized by differents social movements that look for their inclusion in process of “disappropiation” (carried out by that institution). The ways in which these conflicts are defined show struggles for power, inside and outside the institution, in which the valuation of knowledge about administrative practices become a central factor. The paper shows the bureuacratic views and treatements of struggles for property are inseparable from social relations in that institutional space.