O MST e a questão ambiental: uma cultura política em movimento

Abstract

This study concerns a contemporary reading of experiences carved within the Landless Workers` Movement (LWM) formation process analyzing how agroecology is thought, while a political practice of collective confrontation, suggesting a contraposition to transgenic food as well as to the agri-business. Concomitantly, it is highlighted how the agroecology engenders a production and social organizational modal in the Landless` campsites upholding respect to the environment with the objective of generating income for the rural workers. These central issues will be approached from diverse experience lived by the individuals that struggle for the land and Agricultural Reform. For this research the Antônio Companheiro Tavares campsite, located in the city of São Miguel do Iguaçu and comprised of 79 families, was chosen. This site is held as reference in agroecology by the LWM. From contradictions evidenced in the organization processes of different forms of work and farming, as well as the way they were lived by the members utilizing daily life experiences, we analyzed how, in the process of struggling for land and agriculture reform, a movement political culture aimed to protected practices and environmental recuperation was engendered based on the cultural references of the way of life of landless workers embroidered in their life experiences and in their relation with other social entities when outlining the LWM. Thus, the research focus mainly on the social experience of the rural workers questioning how this experience processes itself in the set of relations, how it is established in the lively process by the historical subjects and their functions that engraft feelings and movement to organizing their own work and in relation to the LWM itself