masterThesis
Letramentos de resistência: mulheres na luta por terra e território na Chapada do Apodi
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2019-06-07Registro en:
GRAÇAS, Maria Adriana Vieira das. Letramentos de resistência: mulheres na luta por terra e território na Chapada do Apodi. 2019. 101f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Estudos da Linguagem) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2019.
Autor
Graças, Maria Adriana Vieira das
Resumen
The striving for land and territory that has been occurring since 2011 at Chapada do Apodi
evidences the dispute between two models of agriculture. On the one hand, agricultural and
water businesses are based on the usage of large areas of land and large amount of water.
Such models are associated with the employment of pesticides in agricultural production,
prioritizing profit and threatening country life. On the other hand, most agro-ecological cases
evidence that family and peasant agricultures prioritize life and field biodiversity based on the
production conducted in small lands. The dispute between such models of agriculture
mobilizes several movements and local, national and international organizations against
expropriations and in favor of the families threatened with eviction of their own lands, thereby
constituting striving and resistance movements at and for Chapada do Apodi. From this
process, this dissertation emphasizes reading, writing and orality actions, which are
denominated literacies of resistance and which were performed by farm workers of Apodi
city. Inserted into the field of Applied Linguistics (MOITA-LOPES, 2006; PENNYCOOK,
2006), this research stands for a qualitative and interpretative approach, being backed by
ethnographic literacy studies (KLEIMAN, 1995; TINOCO, 2008; SOUZA, 2009; SITO,
2010), as well as dialogical conception of language (BAKHTIN/VOLOSHINOV, 2006
[1929]), popular education and critical pedagogy (FREIRE, 2014 [1974]; GIROUX, 1986).
The general objective of this research is to analyze the social impacts resulting from literacies
of resistance featured by the Women’s Committee of the Female and Male Rural Workers
Labor Union (STTR) of Apodi concerning the striving for land and territory at Chapada do
Apodi. The specific objectives of this research are: (i) to comprehend the construction process
of literacies of resistance concerning the striving for land and territory at Chapada do Apodi
and in these events, (ii) to examine strategies and language policies developed by rural
workers of Apodi to strengthen their practices of family agriculture and simultaneously to
contradict the discourse of large companies that deal with agricultural and water business. The
collection of data was conducted through six events: two workshops with female rural
workers of Apodi and four interview sessions with coordinators and former coordinators of
the Women’s Committee of STTR of Apodi. In conclusion, the results evidenced that
practices of literacies of resistance at local level and allied with other social practices
popularly organized may turn a local problem into an international collective striving and also
contribute to strengthening the autonomy of the female rural workers that, regardless their
education level, act as literacy agents concerning the striving for land and territory in the state
of Rio Grande do Norte and beyond.