Territorial dynamics: destruction and constitution of territories Brazil nut extractors in the village Fortaleza, São Geraldo do Araguaia (PA)

Abstract

The present article discussed the deterritorialization and the multi-territoriality of the brazil nuts extractors of village Fortaleza, located in the municipality of São Geraldo do Araguaia, in the Southeast of Pará, Brazil . As objectives this article proposed: to understand the processes of deterritorialization of brazil nut extractors and to analyze the construction of multiterritorialities by brazil nut extractors in Fortaleza based on the following questions: how did the processes of deterritorialization of chestnut trees in village Fortaleza happen? Did these brazil nut extractors constitute multi-territoriality, or did they just become deterritorialized? The present work started from a field research using dialectics as a method of general approach. For data collection, interviews were used, which were based on a field script. As a research tool, a cell phone recorder was used to archive the interviews. For the interpretation of the information given by the interviewees, a qualitative analysis was made. With the research it is concluded that the brazil nut extractors of village Fortaleza were deterritorialized from several factors such as: the difficulty of the work and the dangers of the jungle; fraud in measuring production and seasonality of the harvest.