MOVIMENTOS SOCIAIS E NEOLIBERALISMO: MEDIAÇÕES E CONTRADIÇÕES NA CONSTRUÇÃO DO TERRITÓRIO

Abstract

This article purposes to present theoretical research results that addresses the relationship between social movements, neoliberalism and territory, with a view to understanding, dialectically, mediation and contradictions existing in the construction of the territory, from the action of collectives of social subjects in the process of production and reproduction of their existences. In this sense, it brings the social movements as an object of study, historically locates the struggle of social movements and the impacts of neoliberal strategies adopted by different governments in Brazil in relation to these organizations, from the 1980s to the present day and establishes relations between territory and neoliberalism in the context of the globalization of capital. The methodological assumptions adopted are based on the critical-dialectic method, and the production of the reflections is inscribed in a literature review on the subject. The interpretation carried out privileges the classist social movement that seeks to organize the precarious and unemployed workers in the struggle for democratization of access to land and work. It is concluded that neoliberal policies, since the 1980s, intensify the action of capital in the territory and deepen social inequality. The actions of the social movements of the countryside and the city in the territories demonstrate the contradictions arising from these policies implemented and endorsed by the State.