THE CONSTITUTION OF 1988 AND THE NOTEBOOKS OF CONFLICTS IN THE FIELD OF THE CPT: A DEBATE ON THE CONSTITUTIONALIZATION OF AGRARIAN REFORM

A DEBATE ON THE CONSTITUTIONALIZATION OF AGRARIAN REFORM

Abstract

The research aims to explore the process of constitutionalization of Agrarian Reform. The entry of Agrarian Reform into the constitutional text was marked by an intense dispute, which involved parliamentary debate and violence against the social movements that resumed the organization of struggles in the countryside after the period of the Military Dictatorship. Social struggles were waged in the process of formulation and execution of the First National Plan for Agrarian Reform (I PNRA), which in many respects advanced the positions that were consolidated in the constitutional text. In this research we go through the whole dispute around the constitutional text, both in the parliamentary arena, as in the social environment, and the Conflict Notebook will be our point of reference, for the record of violence in the period, as well as for reflecting the conceptions of Agrarian Reform that was being elaborated by the social movements. It is also interesting in our elaboration to understand how the Pastoral Land Commission, through the Conflict Booklet, It founded the right of peasants to land, just as it witnessed the conflicts of the period from the pastoral point of view. The research will concentrate its analyses between 1985 and 1988. It will have as a source the bibliography on the subject, Newspapers, the Conflict Notebook and documents produced by social movements. The methodology is based on the references produced by Legal Pluralism and on historical-dialectical materialism, from the reading of works such as José Gomes da Silva.