A R-Existência do Campesinato frente à Expansão do Eucalipto no Bolsão Sul-Mato-Grossense

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the processes of re-existence, resistance, and peasant reinvention in response to the territorialization of the eucalyptus-pulp monopoly in the Rural Territory of the Southern Mato Grosso do Sul region (Bolsão), particularly in the municipalities of Três Lagoas and Selvíria. It highlights the land and environmental conflicts that characterize the region often downplayed by the hegemonic development discourse. Grounded in the understanding of the peasantry as a historical subject that continually reinvents itself through family-based labor, the study investigates how peasant communities, especially agrarian reform settlers, resist the pressures imposed by the expansion of pulp agribusiness and eucalyptus monoculture. The research examines the contradictions inherent in Brazil’s land structure, historically marked by land concentration, and discusses how this logic is reproduced regionally, deepening social and environmental inequalities. Drawing on quantitative data, field records, and critical agrarian literature, the study concludes that peasants reconstruct everyday practices of territorial permanence, confront structural violence, and organize daily forms of resistance.