As re-existências camponesas em Itauçu-Goiás na perspectiva decolonial

Abstract

The colonial, hegemonic perspective has always approached peasants as custodians and agents of traditional cultures, irremediable victims of conservative, backward and incapable traditionalism. This text, the subject of an ongoing doctoral discussion, aims to question: how do peasants construct ways of life and existence, based on their struggles? The advent of the decolonial perspective has brought a new proposal that defends the need for research to give visibility to groups that position themselves differently within a logic that is still racial and colonial, but that challenge the social, political and epistemic structures of coloniality that treated them as inferior. Based on this premise, this research aims to analyze the dynamics of organization of peasants' re-existence in Itauçu-Goiás. The methodology used was bibliographical research. The research problem is: is the decolonial perspective adequate to research the dynamics of organization of peasants in Itauçu-Goiás? We utilize literature that supports the discussion with authors such as: Martins (1989), Santos (2009), among others from rural sociology.The results point to the effectiveness of the decolonial perspective for the analysis of social movements in the countryside, as it allows for a change in perspective on the peasant, who is no longer seen as backward but as innovators, capable of mobilizing their knowledge in the fight for their rights. It is concluded that this perspective enables the recognition and validation of the knowledge and struggles that were produced by the Itauçu peasants, victims of injustice, oppression, domination and exclusion.