Territorialização e modos de vida dos narradores do assentamento santa marta do município de Piraquê – TO

Abstract

The objective of this research was to question the extent to which and in what ways the advance of agribusiness has entailed a disruption of the way of life of the small dairy farmers, residents of the Santa Marta settlement, in the Rural Area of the Municipality of Piraquê - TO, as that dairy activity is part of a process of forced reterritorialization and tries to adapt to the demands of increased productivity imposed by the capitalist economic logic. We also seek to understand to what extent these small rural producers, forced to become milk producers, given the new circumstances experienced, are accommodated and react to this destructuring. For this, we used the techniques of semi-structured interviews combined with the production of narratives of life stories that enabled us to know the way of life of the subjects on the screen, their memories and the new challenges faced in the process of deterritorialization of their places, since most of them were relocated from the municipality of Babaçulândia - TO, due to the construction of the Estreito Hydroelectric Plant - MA and reterritorialization in the Santa Marta Settlement, having to submit to the changes imposed by the Vallecoop Cooperative. For an interdisciplinary theoretical approach, we used the interaction between the perspectives of Cultural History, Geography and Oral History, respectively based on Edward Palmer Thompson and Raymond Williams, Marcos Aurélio Saquet and Alessandro Portelli. We conclude that the destructuring of the traditional way of life impacts to a great extent the base of cultural, material reproduction and of the values responsible for the development of the community, generating the devaluation of agricultural production practices of a family character.