THE PROCESS OF RURAL COLONIZATION IN CONTEMPORARY BRAZIL

Abstract

The author collects empirical studies and theoretical discussions in order
to define, through the structural recurrence of the occupation of new land, the
process of rural colonization based on family labour as a scientific object of
study. He discusses its cyclical continuity, social control of space, social production
of exclusion, social reproduction of colonizers and concludes by defining
it as a complex social process, having a double dimension - of time and space
- which puts social forces in conflictive interaction and, thus, produces social
relations.