The development in PRONAF: contradictions between hegemonic representations and peasant uses

Author(s)

Michell Leonard Duarte de Lima Tolentino

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2013-09-11

Examining board members

Marta Inez Medeiros Marques; Larissa Mies Bombardi; Jorge Ramón Montenegro Gómez

• Advisor: Marta Inez Medeiros Marques

Abstract

The present research aims to analyze, from the current political and economic situation, the contradictions between the representations of development that underlie the Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar (PRONAF), related to credit policies and its use by the peasants. Beyond the literature, documents and secondary data analysis, this paper also had been endorsed in fieldwork. Understanding PRONAF as a development policy, it was necessary to carry out a reflection on practices and representations deployed by development discourse, analyzing it as a discourse of domination. Thus, PRONAF is understood as a policy that conveys, from their actions, the representations of development, though without subsume such a policy to the global movement, but considering the very dialectics inherent to the program. As long as we understand the representations that support PRONAF, we are able to seek to understand the PRONAFs uses by the peasants. So we selected four rural communities in the municipality of Sapé-PB: Barra de Antas, Padre Gino, Maraú and Lagoa do Félix. In these communities, it was noticed some almost hidden subversions that peasants impose on the program, these subversions are produced from everyday life. In the second stage the conceived faces the lived in everyday life, without reducing it to its norm. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/03904-2 - The development in PRONAF: contradictions between hegemonic representations and peasant uses.
• Grantee: Michell Leonard Duarte de Lima Tolentino
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master