Assentamento Marapicu, da existência à resistência: um estudo sobre a invisibilidade das áreas rurais no Plano Diretor de Nova Iguaçu (1997) e a luta pela terra

Abstract

This dissertation proposes to investigate and analyze the struggle for land and the negative consequences of the invisibilization of rural populations and their expression, as a result of the plans implemented by and in the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, belonging to the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro having as a space cut, the Marapicu Rural Settlement, located in the Regional Government Unit (URG) Cabuçu, of the aforementioned municipality. The intention was to research and critically examine how decisions taken in the 1997 Master Plan still have repercussions on access to rights, and, consequently, on the lives of people occupying rural areas; identify possible sociopolitical interests and/or forcer in the territory studied and to verify the existing disagreements between rights, legislation and applied management, by understanding whether what is foreseen in the norms is effective in practice. To do so, the methodology used was to collect primary and secondary data though by participant observation, oral history interviews, as well an interdisciplinary bibliographic references analysis. The present study intends to contribute to the debates on pubic management and rural development, considering and valuing the perceptions and needs of the social actors directly affected, enabling their access to rights conquered and their insertion in mechanisms, programs and policies, consequently providing territorial development.