The past ten years has been a decade of land wars in India. Rapid urbanization is spilling beyond city boundaries into the highways connecting large cities, instigating a frenzied consolidation and conversion of agricultural lands into urban/industrial lands. This process is fraught with conflict, as different social groups compete to stake their claims on the land value increments - the increases in land value due to the change in land use from agricultural to non-agricultural - of these newly converted highway lands. Against the backdrop of conflictual land consolidation processes, this dissertation examines the unique case of the Pune highways, located in the state of Maharashtra in India. Along some of Pune’s highways, agrarian landowners – sometimes voluntarily and sometimes with the mediation of bureaucrats – are pooling their fragmented agricultural lands, converting them to urban and industrial lands, and forming collective institutions of land ownership to own and control these newly converted highway lands. In other words, agrarian landowners along these highways are not being displaced from their lands. Instead, they are capturing some or all of the land value increments, and are benefiting from the urban transition. I examine the conditions that made these collective institutions possible in the Pune region, and the possibility and desirability of transferring these conditions to other regions elsewhere that are mired in similar land conflicts. My main finding is that the core of India’s land conflicts is a change in the valuation of land from fertility to location. This new, highway-induced restructuring of the land market interacts in complex ways with older caste-based forms of agrarian land control and these changes in land-based social relations is the source of conflict. India’s rapid urbanization along highways is taking place not within cities, but in-between cities, and is leading to new forms of politics that defies the urban-rural dichotomies. I also use Pune’s land conflicts and cooperatives as a window into the broader phenomenon of India’s 21st century transition from an agrarian to urban economy, and articulate the major elements of the new regional institutions that are needed for managing land markets during an uncertain urban transition.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:12:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2008 - Fernando Henrique Guimaraes Barcellos.pdf: 1356283 bytes, checksum: 0417a1cf15c9ba0e6387430d6bcf8cc8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-02-25 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico / The present dissertation aims to investigate the development of the actions of The Agricultural Workers Federation of Rio de Janeiro State FETAG ( Federa??o dos trabalhadores na Agricultura do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) on the land s conflicts in the state. The horizon of time to be studied is divided in three distinct periods. The first one is from 1945 to 1964. The second one is from 1964 to the begging of the 1970 s. And the last one goes from the middle of the 1970 s to the beginning of the 1980 s. In the first period, which is characterized by the beginning of the rural unionism in Brazil and ends with the coup d etat in 1964, it is identified the main forces on the scene, the way they were organized and how they used to fight, observing both who had the power of the organizations and the main changes that took place during the period. In the second period, the way the FETAG registered the conditions of the land s conflicts, its perception and definition of what was legitimate to be claimed in each historical moment and the arguments considered appropriate and legitimate of being used to direct such conflicts are taking into account. In addition, we used that background to understand who was the main actors to whom and for whom FETAG was interested to convey. In the third and last period, we shed light to the practices of fight of The FETAG, its changes and intensity during these years. During that time, it is possible to identify new forces in scene and the transformation of the strategies of fight along with the beginning of the dialog with the State and with other opponent or allied forces. To carry on this research we have used qualitative procedures, which articulates the analysis of narratives to the theoretical and documentary references. / O objetivo deste trabalho ? estudar as continuidades e rupturas da a??o da Federa??o dos Trabalhadores na Agricultura do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FETAG) nos conflitos de terra no estado. O recorte temporal ? demarcado pelos primeiros passos do sindicalismo rural no Brasil, no per?odo compreendido entre 1945 e 1964, ano do golpe militar. Identificamos as principais for?as em cena, suas formas de organiza??o e luta, atentando para as mudan?as ao longo do tempo e tamb?m para quem detinha o controle das organiza??es. Reconstitu?mos a cultura pol?tica que a FETAG, quando surge, deixa para a FETAG ap?s o golpe militar, em 1964. O segundo momento vai de 1964 at? o in?cio dos anos 70. Caracterizamos como a FETAG historia as condi??es dos conflitos de terra, sua percep??o e defini??o do que pode ser qualificado como leg?timo de reivindicar em cada momento hist?rico, as justificativas que se consideram apropriadas de serem usadas para encaminhar esses conflitos e o processo de constitui??o das reivindica??es. Apresentamos suas principais demandas, como condi??o para entender quem eram os trabalhadores, para quem e de quem a FETAG falava e como se procurava traduzir este encontro. No terceiro momento, arrolamos sobre o enraizamento de pr?ticas de luta da FETAG, suas modifica??es e sua intensidade nos anos 1960 e 1970. Identificamos a entrada em cena de novas for?as e as transforma??es das estrat?gias de luta de meados dos anos 70 at? o in?cio dos anos 80, atentando ainda para o di?logo com o Estado e as outras for?as que se apresentavam como opositoras ou aliadas. Foram utilizados procedimentos qualitativos de pesquisa, articulando-se a an?lise de narrativas ao estudo de refer?ncias te?ricos e documentais.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-23T13:53:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Edimilson Rodrigues de Souza.pdf: 2668276 bytes, checksum: 51b069630bb2213acc52afa25c874786 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta pesquisa pretende evidenciar, a partir de três experiências etnográficas, algumas das modalidades de tradução dos assassinatos de lideranças (sindicais, religiosas, camponesas e indígenas) em áreas marcadas historicamente por intensos conflitos fundiários no Brasil: São Geraldo do Araguaia (PA), Ribeirão Cascalheira (MT) e Pesqueira (PE); com o intuito de problematizar a transformação/fabricação de Raimundo Ferreira Lima (Gringo), João Bosco Penido Burnier e Francisco de Assis Araújo (Xicão Xukuru) em mártires da terra e/ou encantados, presentificados nas peregrinações decorrentes desses acontecimentos, as Romarias dos mártires da caminhada. O foco da análise serão as narrativas sobre estes líderes marcados para morrer , que nos oferecem ferramentas para pensar de que forma suas trajetórias pessoais, assim como as ameaças que antecederam os assassinatos por encomenda destes personagens, provocaram outros pontos de vista sobre a morte/violência nesses espaços de luta. Esta topologia é uma tentativa de organizar uma lógica de pensamento que reconheça a transição entre vida e morte, articulada pelas diversas experiências de conflitos e enfrentamentos que perpassam o direito de permanecer em territórios historicamente ocupados e apropriados por esses coletivos / This research aims to highlight, from three ethnographic experiences, some of the manners for the translation of leaders assassinations, respectively union workers, religious, farmers and indigenous, in areas historically marked by intense land conflicts in Brazil: São Geraldo do Araguaia (PA), Ribeirão Cascalheira (MT) and Pesqueira (PE), in order to discuss the transformation/generation of Raimundo Ferreira Lima (Gringo), João Bosco Penido Burnier and Francisco de Assis Araújo (Xicão Xukuru) in the land martyrs and/or enchanted, made present in the pilgrimages arising from these events, the pilgrimages of the martyrs of the walk. The focus of the analysis will be the stories about these leaders "marked for death", which offer us tools to think about how their personal trajectory as well as the threats that preceded the ordered murders of these characters caused other points of view on the death/violence in these spaces of struggle. This topology is an attempt to organize one logic of thought that recognizes the transition between life and death, articulated by various experiences of conflict and confrontation, which underlie the right to remain in the territories historically occupied and appropriated by these collectives

Brazil reduced its annual deforested area from 27772 km2 to 4571 km2 from 2004 to 2012. This phenomenal achievement resulted from multiple government initiatives, most notably the Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAm). However, these ambitious deforestation control policies yield multiple spillover effects. This dissertation examines the effects of the two initiatives from the PPCDAm program, namely the Forest Code of 2012 and the Green Municipality Program. The first chapter provides causal evidence that land registration abates conflicts in Pará. The chapter discusses policy implications in three discussions, prospective deforestation control, potential agricultural growth, and livelihoods promotion within CAR and its related policies. The results from this chapter provoke a question about the drop in land conflicts that stimulates forest conservation on private landholdings. Thereon, my second chapter deals with the dynamic land clearing decision of private landholders in the Brazilian Amazon. The results suggest that the persistence of compliance, thus forest conservation on privately held land, is driven mainly by past compliance and municipality-level incentives. As these two chapters established that land registration abates conflicts, and private landholders are driven by specific incentives to preserve the forest on their land. My third chapter investigates the impact of the provincial governance promotion program on secondary forest recovery. Municipalities participating in the local government improvement program steadily observe an expansion in secondary forest areas. To sum up, my dissertation explores the spillover effects of the deforestation control policy, starting with achieving fewer land conflicts and investigating the local incentives to promote forest protection on private land. Lastly, I provide evidence that the governance promotion program will result in secondary forest recovery. / Doctor of Philosophy / Brazil reduced its annual deforested area from 27772 km2 to 4571 km2 from 2004 to 2012. This phenomenal achievement resulted from multiple government initiatives, most notably the Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAm). This dissertation presents the unintended consequences of two policies under PPCDAm, namely the Forest Code of 2012 and the Green Municipality Program, on land conflicts, environmental policy compliance, and secondary forest recovery. The first chapter provides robust evidence that perceived land tenure security (via land registration) effectively reduces land conflicts. Further, the chapter invokes if the drop in land conflicts stimulates forest conservation on private landholdings. Subsequently, my second chapter deals with the dynamic land clearing decision of private landholders in the Brazilian Amazon. The results suggest that the persistence of compliance, thus forest conservation on privately held land, is driven mainly by past compliance and municipality-level incentives. As these two chapters established that land registration abates conflicts, and private landholders are driven by specific incentives to preserve the forest on their land. My third chapter investigates the impact of the provincial governance promotion program on secondary forest recovery. Municipalities participating in the local government improvement program steadily observe an expansion in secondary forest areas. In summary, the dissertation begins with a study of the unintended consequences of the deforestation control policy, starting with achieving fewer land conflicts. Then, I present a study of the local incentives to promote forest protection on private land. Lastly, I present that the local governance promotion program will result in secondary forest recovery.

O objetivo principal desta dissertação é contribuir para a prática da(o) jurista e militante em ocupações urbanas brasileiras com chaves interpretativas teórico-metodológicas, a partir de análises emergentes da assessoria jurídica popular com moradoras e moradores de favelas em Ribeirão Preto. Enquanto um processo permanente de sistematização de experiências, a finalidade desta pesquisa foi de extrair aprendizados, de modo a refinar algumas hipóteses e análises sobre a realidade vivenciada. Busca-se intercambiar saberes, os quais têm sido úteis para compreender a realidade em suas múltiplas determinações, e para aprimorar a prática profissional-militante. A partir de uma abordagem materialista histórico dialética e do pensamento crítico latino-americano, problematiza-se a tradição jurídica brasileira diante dos conflitos fundiários brasileiros. Por alternativas, e com fundamento nas teorias críticas do direito e das discussões do campo da pedagogia social, discute-se uma atuação jurídica em defesa de um projeto de sociedade mais justo, aqui entendido como aquele que parte das contradições da prática social e que assume posição ao lado dos sujeitos oprimidos. Indissociável de uma prática militante, situamos esta investigação científica e investigadora, e a construção dos conhecimentos decorrentes, a partir de uma epistemologia feminista e anti-racista, enfatizando a importância da dialética nas relações totalidade/particularidade, subjetividade/coletividade, em favor de uma honestidade científica e das humanidades historicamente negadas. Adota-se como marco teórico-filosófico o pensamento de Walter Benjamin, e através de uma lógica narrativa, espera-se fomentar reflexões sobre as potencialidades das práticas de educação popular diante do empobrecimento da experiência na modernidade. Ao destacarmos a função memória, em sua espacialidade e temporalidade, a intenção é contribuir para ações que interrompam o curso da história em direção às ruínas do progresso, para que os mortos do passado sejam redimidos, e os vencidos do presente, libertos. / The main objective of this dissertation is to contribute to the practice of jurists and activists in Brazilian urban occupations with theoretical and methodological interpretative keys, based on emerging analyzes of popular legal advice with residents of favelas in Ribeirão Preto. As a permanent process of systematization of experiences, the purpose of this research was to extract learning, in order to refine some hypotheses and analyzes about the reality experienced. It seeks an exchanging of knowledge, which has been useful to understand reality in its multiple determinations, and to enhance professional-militant activities. From a historical-dialetical materialist approach and from a critical Latin American perspective, confronting the Brazilian juridical tradition on dealing with Brazilian land conflicts. For alternatives, and based on the critical theories of law and discussions in the field of social pedagogy, a legal action is argued in defense of a more just society project, here understood as one that emerges from the contradictions of social practice and which assumes position with oppressed subjects. Indissociable from a militant practice, we situate this scientific and investigative research, and the construction of the resulting knowledge, from a feminist and anti-racist epistemology view, emphasizing the importance of the dialectic in the relations totality / particularity, subjectivity / collectivity, in favor of scientific honesty and historically denied humanities. It is adopted as a theoretical-philosophical framework the thought of Walter Benjamin, and through a narrative logic, it is hoped to foster reflections on the potentialities of popular education practices facing the impoverishment of the experience in modernity. As we remark the function of memory, in its spatiality and temporality, the intention is to contribute to actions that interrupt the course of history toward the ruins of progress, so that the dead of the past are redeemed, and the vanquished of the present, freed.

Cette thèse d’Études rurales en Géographie-Environnement est consacrée à l’ «insertion de la caféiculture dans les structures de production en Guinée Forestière». Introduite dans les systèmes de production paysans par les colons entre 1902 et 1920, la caféiculture a évolué sous l’influence des contextes socioéconomiques, politiques et démographiques variés. Sa dynamique spatiale se présente comme un paradoxe. Les superficies de cultures pérennes à base du café augmentent en effet au détriment des cultures vivrières à base du riz, cependant les rendements et revenus de ces plantations (désormais individuelles) restent généralement faibles. La reconversion de ces parcelles de café en d’autres systèmes de cultures pérennes ou vivrières est rare . Or, il existe d’autres cultures (le palmier à huile amélioré, l’hévéa etc.) plus rentables aujourd’hui que le caféier. Les ressources foncières s’amenuisent dans un contexte de forte croissance de la population régionale qui se situe à 4,3% par an contre 3,1% pour le pays. Cette population vit essentiellement d’une agriculture extensive. L’insécurité foncière s’accroît à travers des conflits complexes parce que l’application en milieu rural du code foncier moderne promulgué en 1992 reste encore limitée. Ainsi, en vue de maximiser la rentabilité des parcelles, les paysans privilégient la polyculture sur les coteaux, en association avec le café. Pour les jeunes, ce choix s’inscrit souvent dans le cadre du processus de leur autonomisation. Cette thèse montre qu’au-delà de sa rentabilité économique, c’est surtout le besoin de sécurisation foncière qui détermine le choix de la culture caféière par la plupart des paysans. / This thesis on Geography-environment deals with "the integration of coffee cultivation in the production structure of Guinée Forestière". Coffee was introduced in the peasant production system by colonial powers between 1902 and 1920, coffee cultivation evolved under the influenced of various socio-economical and demographical situations. Its spatial evolution is a paradox. The perennial area with coffee increases at the detriment of food staffs like rice meanwhile, coffee yards and profits are generally low. Nevertheless densification to other perennial or food crops is rare. However there exist other profitable products like refined palm oil and rubber. Land resources are getting smaller as a result of high regional population growth (4.3% per year while it is 3,1% for the rest of the country). The population mainly depends on extensive agriculture. Land insecurity increases through complex conflicts because the implementation of the modern land code in rural areas is low although it was promulgated in 1992. Thus, farmers favour mixed cropping on slopes associated with coffee in order to maximize their income. For the youths, this choice is a part of their independent process. This thesis shows that the need of land security is more decisive for choosing coffee growing, than its economic profitability.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:13:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2009 - Francine Damasceno Pinheiro.pdf: 614855 bytes, checksum: 3c702d20030d8dbd74dc30d19c4b566f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-03-13 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / Access to the Judiciary Power by a substantial portion of the population has transformed that space into a new arena of contention, which can contribute to the expansion of democratic ideals. The choice of this arena is based upon the perceived ability to reclaim what is Fair against the letter of the Law. We join this debate through an analysis of the workings of the Judiciary Power in the implementation of Agrarian Reform, particularly with respect to the judicial conflicts surrounding the settlements of Novo Horizonte and Oziel Alves I. This work aims at the following goals: to evaluate how far the legal advances foreseen in the 1988 Constitution influenced the heightening of the local land conflicts, as well the acquisition and distribution of the land by INCRA; to explain the role of the diverse actors involved in the process of Agrarian Reform and the Judiciary Power s perception of such actors; to establish the relation between the debates over the judicialization of politics and the judicial practices regarding Agrarian Reform; to reflect upon the role of the Judiciary Power within the structure of the Brazilian State and how it can be used as an instrument for the social advancement of the working class. Our intention is to analyze such issues within the proceedings of the law suits selected for fieldwork, following Carlo Ginsburg s indicial method for the analysis of court proceedings and their content. We thus seek to examine the evidence, the signs, and decipher the social structure hidden by the economic structure of the region in question. Our hypothesis is that the judicialization of politics, particularly in the case of Agrarian Reform, has not facilitated the application of public policy. In fact it has made it more difficult for the settlement of the families, due to the emphasis on private property of the judicial interpretations, which were not able to incorporate the concept of the social function of property nor the achievement of fundamental rights through Agrarian Reform. / A possibilidade de acesso ao Judici?rio por parte de uma quantidade expressiva da popula??o vem transformando este espa?o em uma nova arena de disputa capaz de contribuir com a expans?o dos ideais democr?ticos. A escolha desta arena sustenta-se na percep??o de poder reivindicar o Justo contra Lei. Propomos a inser??o neste debate analisando a atua??o do Poder Judici?rio na efetiva??o da Reforma Agr?ria, a partir dos conflitos judiciais decorrentes da realiza??o dos assentamentos Novo Horizonte e Oziel Alves I. Dessa forma, s?o objetivos avaliar em que medida as conquistas legais previstas na Constitui??o de 1988 influenciaram no acirramento dos conflitos fundi?rios locais, bem como na aquisi??o e distribui??o de terras por parte do INCRA; explicar a atua??o dos diversos atores envolvidos na realiza??o da Reforma Agr?ria e a percep??o que tem no Poder Judici?rio sobre os mesmos; estabelecer rela??es entre o debate sobre a judicializa??o da pol?tica e as pr?ticas jur?dicas no que tange a Reforma Agr?ria; refletir sobre o papel do Poder Judici?rio dentro da estrutura do Estado brasileiro e de como ele pode ser utilizado como instrumento de efetiva??o de conquistas sociais da classe trabalhadora. Nossa pretens?o ? analisar essas pondera??es no universo dos processos indicados para o trabalho de campo, utilizando o m?todo indici?rio, proposto por Carlo Ginzburg para a an?lise das pe?as processuais e de seus conte?dos, a fim de que possamos perceber os ind?cios, os sinais e decifrar a estrutura social oculta pela estrutura econ?mica da regi?o. Nossa hip?tese ? que a judicializa??o da pol?tica e no caso da Reforma Agr?ria, n?o vem facilitando a aplica??o dessa pol?tica p?blica e sim dificultando o assentamento das fam?lias, em raz?o do car?ter privatista das interpreta??es judiciais, que n?o conseguiram absorver os conceitos da fun??o social da propriedade e da efetiva??o dos direitos fundamentais a partir da Reforma Agr?ria.

Submitted by Sandra Pereira (srpereira@ufrrj.br) on 2016-10-11T12:06:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2011 - Marco Antonio dos SantosTeixeira.pdf: 1511707 bytes, checksum: 442940f633094f09874c9a59cc80ecc0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-11T12:06:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2011 - Marco Antonio dos SantosTeixeira.pdf: 1511707 bytes, checksum: 442940f633094f09874c9a59cc80ecc0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-10-05 / Funda??o Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo ? Pesquisa do Estado do RJ - FAPERJ / This work examines the forms of action used by a group of rural workers in the struggle to stay on the land where they lived. It is a case study about the clods Am?rica Fabril and the farms Concei??o de Suru? and Cachoeira Grande, located in the city of Mag?, Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro. The study covers the period between the early 1960's and the second half of the 1980's. We analyzed these cases starting from the experiences of men and women who fought to stay on the land. From the experiences and the elements present in each case - the characters, context and setting, for example - the aim was to identify the configuration formed in each case and to better understand the path taken by the analyzed conflicts. / Este trabalho analisa as formas de a??o empregadas por um grupo de trabalhadores rurais na luta para permanecerem na terra em que viviam. Trata-se de um estudo de caso feito na gleba Am?rica Fabril, fazenda Concei??o de Suru? e fazenda Cachoeira Grande, localizadas no munic?pio de Mag?, Baixada Fluminense, estado do Rio de Janeiro. O estudo compreende o per?odo entre os primeiros anos da d?cada de 1960 e a segunda metade dos anos 1980. Analisaram-se estes casos a partir das experi?ncias dos homens e mulheres que lutaram para alcan?arem seu objetivo, a perman?ncia na terra. A partir desta experi?ncia e da rede de elementos presentes em cada caso ? personagens, contexto e cen?rio, por exemplo ? buscou-se identificar a configura??o que se conformou em cada caso para assim compreender melhor o rumo tomado pelos conflitos analisados

Submitted by Sandra Pereira (srpereira@ufrrj.br) on 2016-10-18T12:33:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2011 - Marco Antonio dos Santos Teixeira.pdf: 1511716 bytes, checksum: 8af277d39470c5da75a79ec8d974149e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-18T12:33:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2011 - Marco Antonio dos Santos Teixeira.pdf: 1511716 bytes, checksum: 8af277d39470c5da75a79ec8d974149e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-10-05 / Funda??o Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo ? Pesquisa do Estado do RJ - FAPERJ / This work examines the forms of action used by a group of rural workers in the struggle to stay on the land where they lived. It is a case study about the clods Am?rica Fabril and the farms Concei??o de Suru? and Cachoeira Grande, located in the city of Mag?, Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro. The study covers the period between the early 1960's and the second half of the 1980's. We analyzed these cases starting from the experiences of men and women who fought to stay on the land. From the experiences and the elements present in each case - the characters, context and setting, for example - the aim was to identify the configuration formed in each case and to better understand the path taken by the analyzed conflicts / Este trabalho analisa as formas de a??o empregadas por um grupo de trabalhadores rurais na luta para permanecerem na terra em que viviam. Trata-se de um estudo de caso feito na gleba Am?rica Fabril, fazenda Concei??o de Suru? e fazenda Cachoeira Grande, localizadas no munic?pio de Mag?, Baixada Fluminense, estado do Rio de Janeiro. O estudo compreende o per?odo entre os primeiros anos da d?cada de 1960 e a segunda metade dos anos 1980. Analisaram-se estes casos a partir das experi?ncias dos homens e mulheres que lutaram para alcan?arem seu objetivo, a perman?ncia na terra. A partir desta experi?ncia e da rede de elementos presentes em cada caso ? personagens, contexto e cen?rio, por exemplo ? buscou-se identificar a configura??o que se conformou em cada caso para assim compreender melhor o rumo tomado pelos conflitos analisados

Submitted by Ricardo Cedraz Duque Moliterno (ricardo.moliterno@uefs.br) on 2015-09-16T22:16:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o_CHINTAMANI_SANTANA.pdf: 1037009 bytes, checksum: 2b17cf6d8a830a8ab05d78e64719996c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-16T22:16:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o_CHINTAMANI_SANTANA.pdf: 1037009 bytes, checksum: 2b17cf6d8a830a8ab05d78e64719996c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-28 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / This work has as its goal study the conflicts in the countryside, specially the fight involving ownership and propety of land and its individuals in the initial two decades of the 20th century, in Feira de Santana. We used as sources the local newspapers and mainly the processes of damage crime. Our approach was built in dialog with theoric and methodologic questions by E.P. Thompson in Whigs and Hunters, for whom the Law can be understod as a fighting arena, where the law can be seem as a way by which other social conflicts take place. So, we seek to present some delimitations and specifications in research territory, delineate the social and ethinic profile of countryside dwellers; debate family and work relationships,; point what was produced in the countrisde; investigate the existence of tension in the day-by-day life of this individuals marked by the conflicts of notions of common use and private apropriation. We identified the existence of different conceptions of right to the land that pervade the juridical partners, one based in the "soft and pacific" posse and other in the evidential right. We examinate how from the querell the complicated social relations detaches and how they constituted communitary life, being part of the conflicts themselves, specially the fight for land. By examining the countryside and their individuals we advanced into a little explored territory, the researches about Feira de Santana in this phase being more intensely dedicated to the urban part. / O presente trabalho tem por objetivo estudar os conflitos no campo, em especial a luta em torno da posse e propriedade da terra e seus sujeitos nas duas primeiras d?cadas do s?culo XX, em Feira de Santana. Utilizamos como fontes os jornais locais e principalmente os processos crime dano. Nossa abordagem foi constru?da em di?logo com as quest?es te?ricas e metodol?gicas pautadas por E. P. Thompson em Senhores e Ca?adores, para quem o direito pode ser compreendido como uma arena de luta, onde a lei pode ser vista como o meio por onde outros conflitos sociais t?m se travado. Deste modo, procuramos apresentar algumas delimita??es e especifica??es do territ?rio da pesquisa, tra?ar o perfil social e ?tnico dos moradores do campo; discutimos as rela??es familiares e de trabalho; apontamos o que era produzido no campo; investigamos a exist?ncias de tens?es no cotidiano desses sujeitos marcados pelos conflitos entre no??es de uso comum e tentativas de apropria??o privada. Identificamos a exist?ncia de diferentes concep??es sobre o direito ? terra que perpassam as pe?as jur?dicas, uma baseada na posse ?mansa e pacifica? e outra no t?tulo comprobat?rio. Examinamos como a partir das querelas se desprendem intricadas rela??es sociais e como estas constitu?am a vida nas comunidades, foram parte importante dos pr?prios conflitos, em especial da luta pela terra. Ao nos debru?armos sobre o campo e seus sujeitos avan?amos por um territ?rio pouco explorado, as pesquisas sobre Feira de Santana neste per?odo dedicaram maior aten??o ao per?metro urbano.