"Identidade sem terra": um estudo sobre trajetórias de militantes assentados.

Abstract

The MST, Landless Workers' Movement, is marked by a certain complexity with respect to social positions that make your organization as well as the trajectories of social activists who constitute it. We treat in this thesis about the "identification process" of "Landless Workers* Movement Identity", basing of social trajectories of eight settlers militant in the Antônio José Eufrosino: a rural settlement constituted legally in 2005 but whose occupation process started in 2001, located in the semi-arid of Paraíba, Brazil. We call for ''settlers militant"" who recognize and are recognized within the rural settlement as "militants": MST representatives. We interviewed four women and four men. At fírst these entered the social struggle for land, driven by social status, but also for the opportunity and desire to become settlers. Only later, in everyday practice of organizations, meetings and collective work, produced from activists and leaders of the MST, they enter in the MST and they assume the militancy tasks. The opportunity to achieve a "agrarian refonn land", produced and presented to the interviewees' lives, is related to the uncertain economic situation, which enhances. Seven of the eight interviewees experienced social positions of the rural world. We think important to speak that the social trajectories of interviewees revealed similarities, for example, almost of them had had rural live experience, but the social trajectories are marked by a profound uniqueness. The interviewees interpretation about themselves history show us theses uniqueness. The entrance in the "struggle for land" and the entrance in the MST have different meanings. The discussion presented in this thesis questions the concept of identity (in the case of Landless Workers" Movement identity) as a choice of "ample opportunity". In contrast, we understand that "the Landless Workers" Movement identity** appears mediated by "objective possibilities.