As terras enguiçadas: a intrusão e reconfiguração agrária nas cercanias de Campo Erê - SC

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the land tenure problem in the west of Santa Catarina, or more precisely, the private appropriation of land, triggered by the intrusion of small farmers in the vicinity of Campo Erê in the 1970s and 1980s. problematize the structuring of land in the west of Santa Catarina in the beginning of the 20th century. This work analyzes the state's performance process in the implementation of public policies that promoted the occupation of western Santa Catarina as a way of inserting the region in capitalist production. The study analyzes how colonization transformed land into merchandise in a large area of ​​activity of the Companhia Territorial Sul Brasil in the vicinity of the municipality of Campo Erê. The company sought to implement the commodification of land, mainly for small farmers. From the moment that market relations began to conquer its hegemony in the western region of Santa Catarina, significant changes took place in relation to the conception of the land, starting to be placed on a level of merchandise that could be exchanged and sold. Colonization had as a proposal to promote the reoccupation of their properties with the objective of forming colonial nuclei that met the premise of market relations. Groups that did not have the profile established by law could be excluded, that is, they became intruders. The migration of these groups brought together small agricultural nuclei, going through similar difficulties, demonstrating that this scenario was the space where conflicts over land tenure developed. We turn our attention to expropriation for social interest in the various faces of these conflicts and the context of the views dispensed by Incra in this region. For the analysis, the methodology of Social History and Cultural History is considered as a proposal that discusses the relationships of subjects, social practices, the formation of social spaces in a territory that is fragmented, connected and part of the same relational set. Sources were obtained from the Memory Center of the West of Santa Catarina (Ceom), Padre Fernando Municipal Museum, Maravilha (SC) and the Regional Coordination of Santa Catarina (CR10) (Incra) of Chapecó, which allowed them to obtain information that they could understand. these conflicts in that region. Symbolic and subjective factors, relational characteristics, produced their logic and multiplicities of intrusion. Within these perspectives, the analysis highlights more specific aspects of the reality of agrarian conflicts. The presence of certain groups of small farmers in the region resulted in serious conflicts, lawsuits and evictions. It is concluded with this analysis that the intrusion occurred in a relational way, considering the multi-identities and the multidimensionality of the intruding small farmer and the forms of intrusion, in the surroundings of Campo Erê in the 1970s and 1980s.