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This text analyzes governmental colonization projects hart used similar strategies for two distinct moments: from the late century XIX in the region Bragantina of Pará and decade of 1970, following the opening of the Transamazônica. The approach lies in the construction of the discourses on the Amazon region as a demographic void and an area with enormous economic potential unexplored, trying to understand the political strategy of installing migrants, to solve the problem of access to land and integrate this territory far from Brazil, without interfering in the traditional land structures of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The proposal of this study is part of the debate about interdisciplinarity in research and graduate study. Its objective is to analyze the approaches and interpretations of "development" and "rural" as concepts and practice in the social sciences, based on a case study. To this end, we shall take as a basis the interdisciplinary scientific production (theses and dissertations) focused on the issues of the rural world, generated by the graduate program of Social Sciences, Development, Agriculture and Society of the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro - CPDA/UFRRJ. The analysis of the construction of the Social Sciences in Brazil is significant to the understanding of the choices and interdisciplinary theoretical-methodological stances of many graduate programs, in order to elucidate their research, formulations and interpretations of social processes. As a result, we present within a broad universe of academic papers, examples of studies recognized as being interdisciplinary in their approaches to development and the rural world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]