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

Autor(es)

Savarego, Julia Arico

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH; v. N/A, p. 27-pg., 2025-06-01.

Resumo

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)

• Processo FAPESP: 20/07886-8 - Artes e semânticas da criação e da memória
• Beneficiário: Fernanda Arêas Peixoto
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Temático
• Processo FAPESP: 23/04869-3 - A relação imbricada entre assentar e expulsar: uma análise da luta do Capão das Antas (São Carlos, SP) para se tornar uma Vila Agroecológica
• Beneficiário: Júlia Aricó Savarego
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Exterior - Estágio de Pesquisa - Mestrado