Do essencialismo ao não essencialismo? Reflexões sobre a identidade cultural do MST

Abstract

The work presents a study involving a social movement, the MST (Portuguese acronym for Movement of the Agricultural Landless Workers), and the slight knowledge of cultural identity. The inquirydevelops a brief exercise combining the meaning of the movement through its history, its relationship with the power and its structure in the current days. In regard to theoretical-methodological landmarks, the research adopts pressupositions of Kathryn Woodward (2000), Stuart Hall (2002) e Zygmunt Bauman (2005) and speeches of people from the movement, taken from Cruz' study of reception (2006). As central quarrel, it is intended to analyze the challenges of the MST in globalization times.