Associativismo rural no município de Teofilândia-Ba: traçando redes de solidariedades e construindo territorialidades

Abstract

The municipality of Teofilândia - Ba, located in the semi - arid region of Bahia, presents characteristics that do not differ significantly from the Territory of Sisal as a whole, since most of its population is a resident of rural areas historically marked by contradictions, conflicts and social exclusion. These facets were appropriated and diffused through a representation of a fragile space, associated with hunger and misery with little visibility or effective actions of the public power. However, it is possible to observe a significant number of rural community associations present in the Territory of Sisal and in this particular municipality, which point to a struggle for the guarantee of greater political participation and of rights that allow the population to survive in the countryside. The struggle for these rights involves the establishment of complex and diversified relations of rural community associations with other entities, establishing networks with multi-territorial actions, in which they establish relations at different scales (local, territorial, state and national) using complex and several strategies of articulation to obtain to obtain benefits for the rural population, that at the same time, is triggered like syntagmatic actors of this process. The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze how rural community associations in the municipality of Teofilândia - Ba contribute to the construction of territorialities, using solidarity networks to strengthen them. Seeking a greater understanding of this reality, we seek to articulate the categories of associativism, territory, territorialities and networks as tools to understand the nature of this process, investigating the interactions and appropriations derived from this reality.