Agrarian reform and territorialization of family agriculture: the case of the Settlement of São Domingos dos Olhos D’Água/Morrinhos (GO)

Abstract

The article discusses how the action of social movements for access to land struggle promotes unconstrained changes to the ownership of the territory, because they extend the establishment of a territorial identity as that access to rural settlement establishes and consolidates. The main objective is to analyze the identity process established between the settlers of the settlement São Domingos dos Olhos D’Água, located in south of the city of Morrinhos, state of Goiás. The research adopted a descriptive perspective and the case study method, to identify the variables of the territorialization process of the of the struggle for agrarian reform, followed by qualitative methodological approach to collecting and analyzing data. There was found in the rural settlement investigate, the production of territorial social identification processes between the settlers. It is concluded that the creation of a new territory from carrying out relevant actions of agrarian reform results in a territorial experience imposed by the relations of production, power and conflicts mediated in territorial identity and in the distinctions between the claim time of agrarian reform, collective action, and attachment to land with partial reproduction of an individual productive logic.