(DES)ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN THE ROAD AND THE RIVER: GLEBA DA BOTA CASE IN THE WEST OF PARA’S AMAZON

• Published in: GeoNordeste
• Main Authors: Alyson Fernando Alves, Ricardo Gilson da Costa
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Programa de Pós-graduação em Geografia (PPGEO) 2019-07-01
• Subjects: Amazon; Territory; Peasantry Agribusiness; Agrarian Space.
• Online Access: https://seer.ufs.br/index.php/geonordeste/article/view/7518

ABSTRACT: The advance of agribusiness in the western Pará has produced new agrarian-territorial conflicts for the peasantry-agroextractivist, aggravating the problems of land and disputes over territories. The article analyzes the socio-territorial situation and dynamics of the Federal Area of Gleba da Bota, located in the municipality of Belterra. The methodology adopted is based on the qualitative and cartographic approach, field work, interviews and dialogues with public institutions and rural communities affected by soy monoculture. As a result, there are conflicts between hegemonic agents and rural communities in settlement projects, indicating the expropriation and spoil of public lands by agribusiness and the resistance of the peasantry-agroextractivist, with the strengthening of peasant territorialities and the defense of cultural territories , of family and community patterns of work, exposed in the synthesis between the geography of the road and the geography of the rivers.