The Peasant Associativism in Babaçu-forested areas: The Experience of Rural Workers of the Municipal District of Lago do Junco - MA Associated ASSEMA. / O Associativismo em Áreas de Babaçuais: A Experiência das Organizações de Trabalhadores rurais do Município de Lago do Junco - MA Associadas à ASSEMA.

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2007

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This work aims to analyze the process of constitution and development of several associative forms adopted by organizations of agricultural workers in the city of Lago do Junco - MA, particularly those allied to a major organization called Associação em Áreas de Assentamento no Estado do Maranhão - ASSEMA. These associations were created in Lago do Junco within the years of 1989 and 1991, by the end of a period of intense and violent agrarian conflicts involving, from one side, a number of peasant villages and, from another, great land owners. Since the decade of 1970, changes in the preaching methods conducted by religious adepts of the Theology of the Liberation, added to the process of land expropriation that affected hundreds of peasant families, stimulated a collective response by rural workers to the process of land privatization. Most of the agrarian conflicts were solved by the end of the decade of 1980, with the establishment of Agrarian Reform settlements for the peasant population. From then on, in this region, the associative forms became a preferred modality of organization adopted by agricultural worker families, as means of ensuring their permanence on their lands. Through analyzing the consequence of the existence and the influence of associations linked to ASSEMA for the living in the studied towns, we noticed a certain ambivalence by which they are experienced by agricultural workers. Such ambivalence is related to the tensions occurred during certain periods, such as those referred to the procedures that made possible to afford selective advantages to their associates and the ones which triggered a deep degree of socioeconomic differentiation inside the villages. Also, conflicts emerged from the principles of conduct and affiliation demanded by the organizations for those who benefited from them, affiliated or not.

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associativismo conflito trabalhadores rurais. antropologia association agricultural workers. conflict

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