Poder Judiciário e lutas por terra: conflitos e disputas a partir da experiência da vara agrária alagoana

Abstract

Alagoas has been a constant scenario of land conflicts resulting from the struggle for land tenure undertaken by peasant families. The present work intends to investigate how these conflicts are conducted and judged from their entrance in the Judiciary, especially from the creation of a specialized court for exclusive treatment of these questions. In order to do so, we proceeded to analyze the judicial processes that were processed and are still in process in the agrarian court, as well as interviews with the main subjects, legal or not, who are involved with the agrarian court. From then on, it was possible to analyze how the agrarian conflicts are managed, perceiving the differences and similarities in the conduct and judgment of the processes by the different magistrates, as well as the existing limitations and the influence power of the social movements in the results of the processes. Finally, we questioned whether there is a preponderance and overlapping of the property right in the conflicts between rights, observing how the state response is built to solve the conflicts that unfold in this area.