Formas de resistência cotidiana: o caso de Campinho da Independência no litoral sul do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The scope of this research is to present a reflection on the evidence of everyday forms of resistance, the invisible struggles, carried out by Campinho da Independência residents - Paraty/RJ front of the various processes that affected the group between the years 1940 and 1980, seized through literature review, documental research, and in loco research. Government actions and the opening of a highway linking Rio de Janeiro to Santos are among the events that attracted agents from diverse backgrounds to the region requiring the land where people were already living with ancestral possession. This resistance characterized by practical actions preceded or was associated with that more public undertaken by the group through its involvement with the Pastoral Land Commission (Comissão Pastoral da Terra) and the Rural Workers Union of Paraty (Sindicato de Trabalhadores Rurais de Paraty).