Campesinato e campesinidade na vila Amazônia (Parintins/Am): um ensaio geográfico fenomenológico

Abstract

The advances in techniques and technologies since the Industrial Revolution and powered by capitalism caused infrastructure changes in several rural areas. The peasant countryside, today, has acquired new meanings, leading the peasantry to build new identities. In this sense, theAmazoniaVillage, in the rural area of the municipality of Parintins, Amazonas state, appears as a concrete example of these changes in the contemporary peasant way of life, influenced by external agents that interfere in the way how the space is lived by the peasants. Since the end of the 20th century, the AmazoniaVillagehas become the target of changes in its infrastructure, absorving urbanistic configurations that become part of the daily life of the peasants of this locality. This work is theresult of investigations about the perception of space lived by the inhabitants of AmazoniaVillage, taking a phenomenological approach as a reference, considering peasantry as a way of life of these inhabitants, using the concepts of geographicity, proposed by Eric Dardel, and campesinity, proposed by Klaas Woortmann, through qualitative research over 18 months. As a result, we saw that the presence of urban settings in the living space of these residents strongly influences their ways of life, creating new habits and changing their ways of relating to the space lived.