A inserção dos assentamentos de reforma agrária federal, a partir da década de 1980, na Zona da Mata pernambucana, aproximou os representantes dos movimentos sociais rurais e os trabalhadores rurais do sonho da melhor distribuição de terras e da possibilidade de acesso a sua terra de trabalho. Tal configuração se fez realidade para apenas alguns trabalhadores, porém estes, mesmo possuindo sua parcela para a realização do plantio continuou, através do trabalho flexível, subordinando sua força de trabalho aos representantes do agronegócio da cana de açúcar. Este panorama suscitou alguns questionamentos, entre eles: Como se apresenta de fato a atual estrutura fundiária do território da microrregião de Vitória de Santo Antão após a inserção dos assentamentos de reforma agrária federal? A então chamada reforma agrária brasileira tem sido capaz de formar uma nova configuração do espaço agrário? E por qual motivo o assentado, que via regra é um ex-assalariado da cana, passa a cultivar cana de açúcar depois que recebe uma parcela? Essas indagações direcionaram a pesquisa o seguinte objetivo: buscar, compreender e analisar as relações socioterritoriais a partir do processo de inserção dos assentamentos de reforma agrária federal no território da microrregião de Vitória de Santo Antão, além de buscar identificar a forma de subordinação dos assentados da reforma agrária aos representantes do capital do agronegócio. Diante das questões levantadas, esta pesquisa se faz relevante por debater questões teóricas associadas com o conhecimento empírico, pertinentes ao conhecimento geográfico e que visam explicar a atual configuração do espaço agrário diante da inserção dos assentamentos de reforma agrária e a subordinação dos trabalhadores assentados ao agronegócio. Visando alcançar o objetivo geral foram feitos os seguintes procedimentos metodológicos. Levantamento e leitura bibliográfica a respeitos das questões conceituais de espaço, território, renda da terra e trabalho flexível, além de trabalhos de campo visando a aplicação de entrevistas, questionários e produção iconográfica foram fundamentais para se chegar a algumas conclusões. A permanência da estrutura fundiária latifundiária e monocultora foi uma delas. Além desta conclusão, notou-se também que os assentados do território da microrregião de Vitória de Santo Antão permanecem subordinando a sua força de trabalho ao agronegócio canavieiro, só que agora dentro das características do trabalho flexível. Em função deste modo de trabalho os assentados não percebem mesmo tendo deixado de ser assalariado da cana, continuam subordinando a sua força de trabalho ao agronegócio canavieiro. / The insertion of the agrarian reform federal, from the 1980s, in the Zona da Mata, approached representatives of social movements and rural workers dream of better land distribution and the possibility of access to their land work. This configuration became reality for only a few workers, but these, despite having its share to achieve the planting continued, through flexible working, subordinating their workforce representatives of agribusiness sugarcane. This scenario has raised some questions, among them: As shown in fact the current structure of the land territory of the region of Vitoria de Santo Antao after insertion of agrarian reform federal? The so-called land reform in Brazil has been able to form a new configuration of agrarian space? And for what reason the settler who saw rule is a former employee of the cane begins to cultivate sugarcane after it receives a portion? These questions directed the research the following objective: to seek, understand and analyze the socio-territorial relations from the insertion process of agrarian reform in the federal territory of the region of Vitória de Santo Antão, and seek to identify the form of subordination of the settlers agrarian reform to representatives of agribusiness capital. Given the issues raised, this research is relevant for discussing theoretical issues associated with the empirical knowledge relevant to the geographical knowledge and aimed at explaining the current configuration of the agrarian space before inserting the agrarian reform settlers and the subordination of workers to agribusiness. In order to achieve the overall goal were made the following methodological procedures. Reading literature survey and to respect the conceptual issues of space, territory, land rent and flexible working as well as field work towards the implementation of interviews, questionnaires and iconographic production were essential to reach some conclusions. The permanence of land ownership and landholding monoculture was one. In addition to this conclusion, it was noted also that the settlers of the territory of the region of Vitória de Santo Antão remain making its workforce sugarcane agribusiness, only now within the characteristics of flexible working. According to this way of working the settlers do not realize even though no longer employed by the cane, still making its workforce sugarcane agribusiness.

Based on primary sources pertaining to the village of Zhaitan, this thesis studied the economic transition of households in a village in the south of Anhui Province as they went through the revolutions, political movements and reforms of the twentieth century. The transition was divided into four periods, corresponding to four of the chapters of this text. The first period was from 1927 to 1949, on which I depicted the household economy in a village that had not yet experienced intervention by the powers of the state; the second period was from 1949 to 1962, during which the Land Reform and the cooperative movement were the most significant revolutions in the rural area. The third period was 1963–1978, when the commune system was adjusted in response to the failure of the Great Leap Forward and was continued stably from then on. The last period was the reform period which ran from late-1978 until 1992. During this period, the collective system was abandoned and state control on the rural economy was gradually loosened. In the course of transition of the household economy in Zhaitan, I focused on the conflict between the growing population and the limited resources of the village. Before the 1949, the solution was to go into businesses outside the village; in the 30 years after 1949, under the framework of the collective system and the control of the state command, the peasants managed to develop labour-intensive production to meet the needs of the growing population; in the reform period after 1978, with the overall withdrawal of state intervention in rural areas, the tension was finally released through the market and the development of industry. The experience of Zhaitan reveals that the change of land ownership did not make a difference to the economic condition of most households if the land area was much less than what was needed. It also shows that the collective system of agriculture, however, could promote agricultural production, and thus brought about positive effects on the condition of each household through centralised management of the labour force and the land. Last, but not least, the overall boost to rural household economy is relient on the development of the industry to complete the transfer of rural workforce from the agriculture.

The thesis deals with issues relating to the ownership of land, analysing it on two different levels. On the first level, it defines the ownership of the land, particularly its object and subject, and also describes the specific properties of soil, and their manifestations in land property rights and related legislation. On the second level, the work discusses selected institutes in terms of problematic issues that have arisen in connection with the introduction of the Act no. 89/2012 Coll., Civil Code, which has brought into our legal system new institutes or modified to some extent the old ones. The thesis compares the current and the previous legislation and with the aid of the specialized literature seeks to answer the question whether it is possible to perceive these changes positively or whether they are considered rather negative and problematic.

全文ファイル差し替え（2021-07-01） / 京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・論文博士 / 博士(地域研究) / 乙第13250号 / 論地博第22号 / 新制||地||94(附属図書館) / (主査)教授 水野 広祐, 教授 安藤 和雄, 教授 速水 洋子 / 学位規則第4条第2項該当 / Doctor of Area Studies / Kyoto University / DFAM

Masters of Art / Using a qualitative feminist methodology grounded on post-modemist and postcolonial framework, this research represents an attempt to determine the factors influencing the farming and subsistence agriculture strategies used by rural women of U-Mhlanga village, in the Eastern Cape in the past and the present. It also explores what these women perceive to be their successes and highlights obstacles they encountered in the past and the present in farming. The Eastern Cape has one of the poorest populations of South Africa, and the poorest of these are women. Despite access to land, people are going hungry. This study explores this rural poverty that is feminized and goes on to highlight the social, political and economic issues related to ability or inability to utilize the resources that are accessible. The most prominent problem highlighted by these women goes back to colonial and apartheid times where discrimination in terms of race was used as a determining factor to accessing resources, and how these continue to play out today. However, despite the obstacles, my informants still believe that the local agriculture and farming can sustain rural communities.

The focus of this research has been on how the county of Hertfordshire negotiated the economic, social and political changes of the late nineteenth century. A rural county sitting within just twenty miles of the nation’s capital, Hertfordshire experienced agricultural depression and a falling rural population, whilst at the same time seeing the arrival of growing numbers of wealthy, professional people whose economic focus was on London but who sought their own little patch of the rural experience. The question of just what constituted that rural experience was played out in the local newspapers and these give a valuable insight into how the farmers of the county sought to establish their own claim to be at the heart of the rural, in the face of an alternative interpretation which was grounded in urban assumptions of the social value of the countryside as the stable heart of the nation. The widening of the franchise, increased levels of food imports and fears over the depopulation of the villages reduced the influence of farmers in directing the debate over the future of the countryside. This study is unusual in that it builds a comprehensive picture of how agricultural depression was experienced in one farming community, before considering how farmers’ attempts to claim ownership of the ‘special’ place of the rural were unsuccessful economically, socially and politically. Hertfordshire had a long tradition of attracting the newly wealthy looking to own a country estate. Historians have suggested that in the late nineteenth century there was a shift in how such men understood ownership of these estates, showing little enthusiasm for the traditional paternalistic responsibilities; in the face of a declining political and social premium attached to landownership, their interest lay purely in the leisure and sporting opportunities of the rural. However, as this research will show, the newly wealthy were not immune to that wider concern with social stability, and they engaged with their local environment in meaningful ways, using their energies and wealth to fund a range of social improvements. This research extends our understanding of just how the rhetoric of the rural was experienced by the residents of a county which so many saw as incorporating the best of the ‘south country’. In so doing, it makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of how this period of agricultural depression was interpreted by the wider nation, and the impact on social and cultural understanding of the place of the countryside within the national identity.

This research is based upon fieldwork carried out in 2005 and 2006 among Truku people, a Taiwanese indigenous group living in eastern Taiwan. It examines the transformation of the relationship between women and land, and explores meanings related to women’s ownership of land since the government introduced the privatisation of land ownership and cash cropping into Truku society in the 1960s. However, the imposition of these programmes of land reform and capitalisation has generated various types of conflict over land in Truku society. Since the 1960s, Truku people have suffered from loss of lands, arising from various governmental policies on economic development. Hence, many land reclamation movements have arisen, organised by Truku people in order to reclaim their land rights. Furthermore, the transformation of property relations has generated many conflicts over land and inheritance between different households and has created tensions between women and men in terms of land ownership in contemporary society. Most importantly, I reflect on the prevalent idea that women’s right to own land is not sanctioned by ‘traditional’ Truku culture, an argument which, I argue, is problematic, because the idea does not (neatly) fit into actual Truku practices of property transaction. Truku people strategically make use of this narrative of ‘tradition’ in order to strengthen their own tactical position in land disputes which arise between different households. Furthermore, I am critical of the emphasis placed on masculine or male Truku culture in this narrative, which is constructed by Truku activists in land reclamation movements in contemporary Truku society. Through investigation of the processes by which women obtain land in Truku society, I argue that women’s ownership of land cannot simply be regarded as a consequence of the implications of privatisation, but is also a result of kinship practices and their work in cultivating land and maintaining the economic well-being of the household in contemporary society. This research attempts to contribute to anthropological perspectives on property relations, economic anthropology, gender studies, kinship studies and studies of indigenous movements in Taiwan.

A presente tese de doutorado intenciona analisar os processos sociais que possibilitaram a ascensão de descendentes de escravos como possuidores de terra em contextos pós-coloniais. O debate ora suscitado busca eleger como foco de reflexão as relações que produzem discursos de verdade, nos quais antigos rendeiros (Cabo Verde) e quilombolas (Brasil) não se constituem facilmente na figura de proprietários. As teorias do estado de exceção leem esses fenômenos de oscilação política como uma forma peculiar de resguardar a segurança pública em um paradigma arbitrário de governo. Sendo assim, serão apresentados argumentos que vislumbrem a insegurança fundiária nos dois países em um quadro complexo do referido estado de exceção que mescla elementos étnicos e políticos. Neste fulcro, serão apresentados dois universos rurais: São Salvador do Mundo (Cabo Verde) e Canguçu, Quilombo Maçambique (Brasil) - o primeiro assistiu às fortes disputas territoriais entre morgados e rendeiros, passando pelo projeto de reforma agrária e, atualmente, encontra-se sob a posse de pequenos agricultores; o segundo experimentou as variadas transformações históricas no que se refere à questão fundiária sulina, bem como concentrou em seu espaço territorial um grande número de trabalhadores escravos no séc. XIX. As duas localidades partem de contextos sociais de trabalho subalternizado por proprietários brancos, porém encontrando destinos raciais diversos, oferecendo materiais etnográficos densos para trabalhar a questão teórica “terra-segurança”. / This doctoral thesis intends to analyze the social processes that enabled the rise of the descendants of slaves as having land in postcolonial contexts. The debate raised now seeking election as a focus for reflection relations that produce discourse of truth, in which former tenants (Cabo Verde) and maroon (Brasil) are not easily figure of the owners. Theories of the state of exception read these oscillation phenomena in politics as a peculiar form of protecting public safety in a paradigm of arbitrary government. Thus, arguments are presented that envisage tenure insecurity in both countries in a complex picture of that state of exception that ethnic and political mix. This core will be presented two rural universes: the São Salvador do Mundo (Cabo Verde) and Canguçu, Quilombo Maçambique (Brasil) - the first attended the strong territorial disputes between heirs and tenants, through the agrarian reform project and currently is under possession of small farmers, the latter tried the various historical transformations in relation to the southern land issue, and focused on their territorial space a large number of slave laborers in the century. XIX. The two locations run by social contexts of work subalternizado by white owners, but finding racially diverse destinations, offering dense ethnographic materials to work the theoretical question "land-security."

Lic.-avh. Uppsala : Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, 2007.

A presente tese de doutorado intenciona analisar os processos sociais que possibilitaram a ascensão de descendentes de escravos como possuidores de terra em contextos pós-coloniais. O debate ora suscitado busca eleger como foco de reflexão as relações que produzem discursos de verdade, nos quais antigos rendeiros (Cabo Verde) e quilombolas (Brasil) não se constituem facilmente na figura de proprietários. As teorias do estado de exceção leem esses fenômenos de oscilação política como uma forma peculiar de resguardar a segurança pública em um paradigma arbitrário de governo. Sendo assim, serão apresentados argumentos que vislumbrem a insegurança fundiária nos dois países em um quadro complexo do referido estado de exceção que mescla elementos étnicos e políticos. Neste fulcro, serão apresentados dois universos rurais: São Salvador do Mundo (Cabo Verde) e Canguçu, Quilombo Maçambique (Brasil) - o primeiro assistiu às fortes disputas territoriais entre morgados e rendeiros, passando pelo projeto de reforma agrária e, atualmente, encontra-se sob a posse de pequenos agricultores; o segundo experimentou as variadas transformações históricas no que se refere à questão fundiária sulina, bem como concentrou em seu espaço territorial um grande número de trabalhadores escravos no séc. XIX. As duas localidades partem de contextos sociais de trabalho subalternizado por proprietários brancos, porém encontrando destinos raciais diversos, oferecendo materiais etnográficos densos para trabalhar a questão teórica “terra-segurança”. / This doctoral thesis intends to analyze the social processes that enabled the rise of the descendants of slaves as having land in postcolonial contexts. The debate raised now seeking election as a focus for reflection relations that produce discourse of truth, in which former tenants (Cabo Verde) and maroon (Brasil) are not easily figure of the owners. Theories of the state of exception read these oscillation phenomena in politics as a peculiar form of protecting public safety in a paradigm of arbitrary government. Thus, arguments are presented that envisage tenure insecurity in both countries in a complex picture of that state of exception that ethnic and political mix. This core will be presented two rural universes: the São Salvador do Mundo (Cabo Verde) and Canguçu, Quilombo Maçambique (Brasil) - the first attended the strong territorial disputes between heirs and tenants, through the agrarian reform project and currently is under possession of small farmers, the latter tried the various historical transformations in relation to the southern land issue, and focused on their territorial space a large number of slave laborers in the century. XIX. The two locations run by social contexts of work subalternizado by white owners, but finding racially diverse destinations, offering dense ethnographic materials to work the theoretical question "land-security."