"Invisíveis perante o poder público”: o Assentamento Municipal Rural do Marapicu e as reivindicações de políticas públicas para o território rural

Abstract

Marapicu represents a history of struggle for land. The territory of agrarian reform has resisted, for three decades, to the forms of oppression of modern capitalism that devalues the identity present in a portion of the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, impacting the social reproduction of families. Considering that the Municipal Rural Settlement of Marapicu was constituted in 2008 by the Municipality of Nova Iguaçu as a territory for agrarian reform, the objective is to analyze and debate public policies aimed at the surveyed settlement and, if there is no application of such policies, to inquire about the reason. To this end, the public policy and territorial identity concepts are discussed to reflect on the processes present in Marapicu. It is observed in this process that the social actors are not passive and, represented by the Association of Peasants of Marapicu, have a trajectory of struggles that ensured, at different times, victorious actions in favor of the settlement. This allows us to conclude that, even in the face of adverse reality, the maintenance of the rural area is due to the political actions of the social actors in the face of what they understand as invisibility.