A Land of Love and Exhaustion: Making a Home for a Collective Project of Hope

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Author(s):	Savarego, Julia Arico Total Authors: 1
Document type:	Journal article
Source:	JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH; v. N/A, p. 27-pg., 2025-06-01.
Abstract
This article delves into the enduring question of what propels people to keep fighting when failure, to a certain extent, seems inevitable. I draw specifically from the case of the Cap & atilde;o das Antas Camp-a rural occupation in the state of S & atilde;o Paulo, Brazil-entangled in a repossession process since 2011. Amid a complex relationship with the land that both exhausts and heals, the residents are not merely seeking land rights but are fundamentally engaged in a struggle for home. Positioned within what I term ethnographies of endless struggles, I argue that the fight for their home is also the fight for a collective dream of agrarian reform that unites people in the present and across time. This is why, despite-or perhaps because of-the inevitability of failure, people choose to stay. (AU)

FAPESP's process:	20/07886-8 - Arts and semantics of creation and memory
Grantee:	Fernanda Arêas Peixoto
Support Opportunities:	Research Projects - Thematic Grants


FAPESP's process:	23/04869-3 - The embedded relationship between settling and evicting: an analysis of Capão das Antas' (São Carlos, SP) struggle to become an Agroecological Village
Grantee:	Júlia Aricó Savarego
Support Opportunities:	Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree