Os Guardiões de Semente no Passo do Lourenço, Canguçu-RS: a semente crioula e o habitus do camponês

Abstract

In this dissertation, we investigated the dispute between peasants, Creole Seed Guardians, in Passo do Lourenço, Canguçu-RS, and agroindustrial companies, involving the preservation of the habitus, in the theoretical perspective of Pierre Bourdieu. The study sought to analyze how this habitus became a resistance to the modernization of agriculture in Brazil, especially as it was implemented, which excluded the peasantry from public policies for the sector; Discussing fundamental concepts such as field and symbolic capitals, and how the struggle between social actors was set up, especially after the so-called Green Revolution and the implementation of seed transgency in the agricuture scenario.