Mosaico de resistências: os conflitos por terra no espaço cearense (1995 – 2010)

Abstract

The reflections of this research revolve around the land conflicts in Ceará between 1995 and 2010 and have as main objective to understand how this phenomenon is established through advances and retreats of their spatial distribution, promoting changes in the agricultural space from the regulatory action / mediator the state, in different circumstances. For this understanding, the analysis will be carried out from the time frame comprising the governments of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, from 1995 to 2002 and Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, between 2003-2010.The work follows in the light of critical theory, with the theoretical assumption guiding the understanding of capitalist transformation in the Brazilian countryside through the combined and uneven development (OLIVEIRA, 2001).We support the propositions of qualitative and quantitative methodological nature of the type of documentary research, since this approach allowed us to get closer to the object of the research - the land conflicts in Ceará - through literature, review books, theses, dissertations, periodicals, analysis and interpretation of secondary sources such as "Conflitos no Campo Brasil" book, official data and survey of newspaper articles to build a database questioned throughout this work.These governments maintained specific political boundaries, but approached the absence of a land reform policy that would address the serious problem of concentration of land ownership, symptomatically attested by the strength of the land conflicts.