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New centrality of territory and identity in social struggles and the increasing complexity of the agrarian question

Abstract

Until the 1980s, Brazilian agrarian interpretations pointed out that conflicts and contradiction in the field are explained through the relationship between two opposing poles: peasants and large landowners, who reflected two different perspectives of land use - for work (means of production and life) and for business (associated with expansion and speculation in the capitalist market). However, from that decade, new voices have emerged on the public scene, politicizing aspects such as identity and territory and reconfiguring the field of disputes, which we understand as a complexification of the agrarian question. This article deals with this process in Brazil, which is diverse from the point of view of the subjects and territories and which requires the need to incorporate new approaches in terms of the problems of territorial uses and conflicts in the field.

Keywords:
Land; Territory; Identity; Conflicts; Agrarian question

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