DISPOSSESSED TERRITORIES: THE RESISTANCE OF THE COMMUNITIES OF FUNDO AND FECHO DE PASTO IN WESTERN BAHIA

Abstract

The article aims to understand the spoliation of the territory where the communities of Fundo and Fecho de Pastos live for centuries in Western Bahia, mainly in the region of Correntina/BA. The objective also extends to the perception of the mobilization of these communities, especially against agribusiness, aiming to maintain their territories and, consequently, their environment and way of life. The methodology is based on qualitative research procedures, such as field research, participant observation and field diary. The theoretical and methodological questions were based on the reflections proposed from the Geography of Labor and Agriculture. Agribusiness does not only materialize the plundering of the territories of traditional communities, because water is almost monopolized to meet the demands of monoculture, the felling of the biome to expand planting areas, in addition to the poisoning of these same rivers and soils through pesticides used indiscriminately. The State, subservient to agribusiness and silent to the needs of workers, was one of the generators of the conflict of November 2, 2017. Traditional communities continue in a constant mobilization, the attacks on their territories have not ceased and the climate of a new escalation of violence is constantly in the air.