Fincados na terra como um bacuri: a luta da comunidade Carrancas pelo direito de existir

Abstract

The present research proposes to analyze the impacts resulting from the expansion of the soy agribusiness that reached the traditional community Carrancas, municipality of Buriti/MA, a violent process that threatens the ways of being, doing and living of traditional populations in a context of intensification violence in the countryside and popular resistance to brutality. The research problem is part of a reality of intense agrarian and socio-environmental conflicts, resulting from the current economic model in progress, resulting in the expansion of the agricultural frontier called MATOPIBA, in which the municipality of Buriti is inserted. It analyzes the historical development of capitalism in Maranhão and its contradictions in the neoliberal era. The history of Carrancas is discussed, told from the perspective of its residents, the uniqueness of its socioeconomic and legal organization, the role of the state in the implementation of an unequal, violent, brutal and predatory development model from the point of view social and environmental, the multiple impacts resulting from the expansion of the soy agribusiness, the agrarian and socio-environmental conflicts and the different forms of resistance carried out by the community in the face of the territorialization of capital in the countryside. To carry out this research, the perspective of decolonial and post-colonial studies and Marxist critique were taken as reference. As for the methodological procedures developed, analyzes were carried out of a set of documents (studies, judicial processes, administrative processes, reports, letters, maps, satellite images, documentaries) related to the Carrancas Community, as well as direct observation techniques, semi-structured interviews and conversations held in distinct and different contexts, seeking to follow the narratives of memories and cartographies, speeches, looks, expressions and feelings about everyday life, parties, regrets, laws, tensions, conflicts and mobilizations