Um olhar geográfico sobre o Assentamento 2 de junho, município de Olhos D’agua – MG

Abstract

Located between large monocultures of eucalyptus and livestock production, mining areas and the Always Alive National Park, it is marked by the intense struggle of small producers in the north of Minas Gerais in the face of the advance of capitalist activities in the countryside. In addition, this historical struggle finds, in the settlement project, clues about the importance of land for peasant social reproduction, through work and the materialization of traditional knowledge and practices of land use, as well as the culture forged by these groups that also undertake the symbolic in the process of territorialization of their practices. In that sense, this text portrays the context of the socio-spatial organization of this group of residents, based on the communication about their current practices, based on a survey and the collection of data in official bodies, interviews and field reports, as well as a bibliographic review on the importance of these movements that fight for the lands and the conquests linked to the Agrarian Reform projects in the country. It is concluded that peasant territorialization marks the life and landscape of the North of Minas Gerais and has settlement an important testimony of the genuine geographic movement.