A luta pela terra no sertão do Rio São Francisco: a experiência do assentamento Lameirão, Delmiro Gouveia, Alagoas, 1989-2014

Abstract

This work intends to study the experience of struggle for land tenure, one of the first settlements in the backwoods, as know by Sertão, the banks of the down São Francisco River, in Delmiro Gouveia, Alagoas, since year of 1989 to 2014: the Settlement Lameirão. The survey began in 1989 due to the negotiation of the area for agrarian reform purposes and ends in 2014, when the settlement consolidates part of its demands. In theoretical and methodological terms, the foundations of this work interact with E. P. Thompson's concept of “experience" with the bibliography related to Agrarian Reform, with discussions of oral history and written, oral and photographic sources that record the experience of this settlement. Sources and literature contextualized around the experiences, disputes and achievements resulting from the activism of landless farmers and residents of the upper Sertão of the São Francisco River. In summary, this work, in rescuing the experiences of this settlement and its settlers, discusses the resistance strategies of these workers during disputes over land tenure in the Sertão of the Alagoas, the banks of Rio São Francisco. Experience that has accumulated twenty-five years, a quarter of a century, drawn between the occupation and the outcome of the experiences of constitution of the settlement, as a space of collective organization, social, economic and political and cultural identity.