Interview with Ayala Ferreira – “Restless Subjects”: 40 Years of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement

Authors

Ayala Lindabeth Dias Ferreira Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra
Nashieli Cecilia Rangel Loera Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Departamento de Antropologia, Centro de Estudos Rurais, Campinas, SP, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4728-1017
Igor Rolemberg Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Instituto de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Departamento de Desenvolvimento, Agricultura e Sociedade (CPDA), Seropédica, RJ, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5171-1254

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Keywords:

mst, access to land, social movements

Abstract

This interview sought to take stock of the land, agrarian and agricultural policies designed to regulate access to land and the priority uses made of it in Brazil, from the perspective of an MST activist, in the context of the movement's 40th anniversary. The interview deals with the changes that have taken place in the agendas for demanding agrarian justice, the forms of mobilization undertaken, the public that participates in collective actions and the way in which dialogue with the state has been established, comparing the case of the Amazon with the rest of the country. The interview also discusses the changes in the state's policies in relation to the demand for land, and in the movement itself, over the last few decades.

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Author Biographies

Ayala Lindabeth Dias Ferreira, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra

Activist with the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) since 1999, and a rural settler in the “26 de Março” Settlement Project in Marabá, Pará. She is currently a member of the MST National Leadership.
Nashieli Cecilia Rangel Loera, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Departamento de Antropologia, Centro de Estudos Rurais, Campinas, SP, Brasil

Professor in the Department of Anthropology and researcher at the Center for Rural Studies at the State University of Campinas. She is the editor-in-chief of RURIS Journal. Her research has focused on the analysis of peasant ways of life, social movements, and the formation of forms and languages of collective social demand.
Igor Rolemberg, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Instituto de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Departamento de Desenvolvimento, Agricultura e Sociedade (CPDA), Seropédica, RJ, Brasil

PhD in Social Anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, in cotutelle with the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. FAPERJ Postdoctoral Researcher in the Graduate Program in Social Sciences – Development, Agriculture, and Society (CPDA) at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. His research has focused on land disputes and social mobilizations for access to and redistribution of land in the Brazilian Eastern Amazon.