As ligas camponesas da Paraíba: história e memória

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Pessoa, Victor Gadelha
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; História; Programa de Pós-Graduação em História; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ligas Camponesas da Paraíba; Peasant Leagues of Paraiba; História e Memória; Repressão aos Camponeses; Traumas do Regime Civil-Militar; Lideranças Camponesas; History and memory; Repression of peasants; Trauma of the Civil-Military Regime; Peasant leaders; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/8366

This project seeks to contribute to the historiography concerning the Peasant Leagues of Paraiba, especially by rescuing this story through the memories of the ones from below. Our approach is through the work we developed at the State Commission of Truth and Memory Preservation of Paraiba (CEVPM/PB), through the taking of testimony of former rural workers, leaders of the movement and family members persecuted by the civil-military regime. Through the testmony of the latter, we also gave special attention to the effects of the coup and the civil-military regime for some persecuted politicians linked to the peasant leagues and their families. In most of the analyzed interviews, however, we highlight the struggles and battles fought by organized rural workers and landowners and their agents. Configuring antagonistic social forces, we also analyze how the power relations were given, noting that there was not an absolute domination of the ones on top towards the ones from below. Organized in Peasant Leagues, the peasants amounted forces that reacted in relatively balanced proportions to the arbitrariness of large landowners. This encounter often resulted in bloody battles that ended with casualties on both sides. It was in the light of historiographical aspects of social history, particularly the English tradition, and the New Political History, which we approach our object of study by understanding that power relations also permeate social dynamics.