Estado e movimentos sociais no campo: a trama da construção conjunta de uma política pública no Maranhão

Abstract

The relationship between government and Social Movements that working in the countryside, established in the process of joint construction of a particular public policy, directed to segments that living in household production, is the central axis of this thesis. The study has as empirical reference the lived experience in the state of Maranhao, in the period 2004-2008, with firmed covenants between the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform – NICRA and seven civil society organizations for the service delivery of Technical Social Environmental Advising – TSEA for families who reside in so-called Settlement Projects – SPs. The analytical inspirations combine theories of Political Economy, Political Sociology and Political Anthropology, with readings that, from the point of methodological and epistemological view, help you think the attitude of a researcher in the craft of doing research, among them, stand out the contributions of reflexive sociology (Bourdieu), the sociology of absences and emergencies (Boaventura dos Santos) and the interpretive anthropology (Geertz). Through a qualitative methodology, which combines different techniques of data collection, among them, observing events, interviews and visits to settlements, the study comes to perceptions of social agents involved in the initiative, identifying tensions and approximations that arise from joint action, which helps in the formulation of a sociological analysis, about the inconsistency of the contemporary Brazilian Nation, that attempts to establish itself as a democratic Nation of law, amid the dilemmas caused by adjustments to the dynamics of the capital, on its face globalized