Strategies of resistance, social reproduction and resilience of European peasantry facing the crisis of neoliberal capitalism: the case of the settlement of MARINALEDA (province of SEVILLE, Spain)

• Grant number: 13/25870-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: May 01, 2014
• End date: July 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Jose Gilberto de Souza
• Grantee: Dorival Borelli Filho
• Supervisor: David Gallar Hernández
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidad de Córdoba (UCO), Spain
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/00831-4 - TERRITORAL MONOPOLIZATION AND THE (RE) CONSTRUCTION OF PEASANT SETTLEMENT PROJECTS IN TERRITORY OF AGRARIAN REFORM, BP.DR

Abstract

This study aims at analyzing the experience and strategies of resistance, reproduction and resilience of European peasantry territorialized in the agricultural community of Marinaleda (province of Seville, Spain) facing the crisis of worldwide capitalism. The experience of this town will be compared with the processes of social reproduction of Brazilian territorialized peasantry, especially, from political activities of peasants' social movements in rural settlers' projects of agrarian reforms, settlements broken down into conventional and environmentally differentiated, institutionally recognized by the acronyms PA's and PDS's. In this regard, in this study we intend to analyze the spatial aspect of settlement processes led by peasant social movements, the implementation of cooperative systems and the adoption of strategies of collective production/marketing and selling, as well as strategies established with local public power and processes of consolidation of public policies with effective participation of the community. This analysis is based on data collected during semi-structured interviews with the peasant community. (AU)