Memória e geografia da luta pela terra no Sudeste do Pará: construção da trajetória de vida de seu Almir Ferreira Barros

Abstract

The squatting fight for land in The Southeastern of Pará dates back to the 1970s, when there is a strong concentration of land in the region as a result of the private appropriation of the territory undertaken by the so-called "castanhais owners" and then by companies linked to the agrarian and mining dynamics, Increasing existing land problems in this area. In order to (re) occupy these latifundia territories, the squatters organized themselves at the beginning through The Ecclesial Communities (CEBs) and then, later the Rural Workers' Unions to conquer, through the struggle, the Settlement Projects Rural areas, which are now agrarian reform territories. This process mainly, It was carried out by some important trade union representatives, between them was pointing out the figure of Almir Ferreira Barros, who was a settler, squatter and trade unionist, whose geographical trajectory allows us to understand the territorialization of the struggle for land in Southeastern of Pará. For this reason, the general goal of the research is to analyze the territorialization of the squatter struggle in The southeastern of Pará considering the geographical trajectories of Almir and his important contribution for this process of conquering the squatter territory. To reach this aim, Oral History is used as a methodology, besides bibliographic review, documentary analysis and the production of a thematic cartography. It can be affirmed that the squatting and union struggle in The Southeastern of Pará was crucial for conquering the land and its permanence on it, it is also alluding that the analysis of Almir Ferreira Barros history life, heading the representation in the union movement, he had developed important actions to mediate the difficult struggles of land tenure, thus contributing to the local and regional development what is nowadays agriculture family in that territory.