A centralidade da luta simbólica para o MST: expansão da ocupação do ciberespaço na busca por reconhecimento.

Abstract

The process of reinvention of the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) is ongoing. Classic flags, as the claimed land reform model, are resignified. The MST also attempts to increase and strengthen its alliances with urban social movements and convince society of the importance of agricultural production guided by agroecology. It underlies the proposed "Land Reform People" prepared by moving counterpoint to the rural production system represented by agribusiness. This clash, which marks the relations between social agents working in these regions, simultaneously occurs in symbolic fields and material. However, in the eyes of common sense and part of the MST militants, only material struggle is highlighted. From the theoretical framework based on authors such as Fraser (2007) and Honneth (2003), have been problematized the demands of the MST for redistribution and recognition. To study the expansion of the cyberspace organization's communication policy, made possible through the ethnography of the actions of the movement developed on the Internet, was detected enlargement of the interdependent relationship between the symbolic fields and material struggle developed by the group. To reach this conclusion, it was necessary to perform the mapping of uses and appropriations of the new on-line tools made by the movement, a new public space intricate by the power relations that constitute the logic of action of the actors who are every second the " virtual universe ", whose separation from the real world was gradually broken. The obtained results allow us to propose a new perspective in understanding the MST, where fighting in the symbolic field, recognition, can not be seen as secondary. It should be understood as central to the group, as it was always understood utilitarian struggle for land. Both are equivalent and mutually dependent, as comprise different dimensions of the same reality.