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The land occupation in Brazil has been an important instrument on the process of the struggle for landagrarian reform and of rural settlements, therefore enabling the peasantry to appropriate from a fraction of the capitalist territory. In this way, recognizing the land occupation as a fundamental strategy to the formation of the Rural Settlements Projects and consequently to the recreation of the peasantry, this paper aims to analy the formation of the Nova Esperança Camp, a space of important struggle on the formation of the Assentamento Primavera II, located on the municipality of Mirandópolis State of São Paulo. Specifically, we analyzed the trajectory and memories of the rural settlement members, highlighting the difficulties experimented under the black canvas. Theoretically, this work is based on authors that have been dedicating to study the agrarian theme that is still not resolved in Brazil, and the peasantry as a social class that raises and reproduces itself from the contradictions on the capitalist development. Beyond the bibliographical analysis, we used as methodological approach the fieldworks, having as main instrument the interviews. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present text we assume the challenge of establishing dialogues between the geographical concept of territory and the native category of the Guarani language tekoha with the objective of highlighting the complexity and singularities of the struggle of the Guarani and Kaiowá people for their ethnic territories called tekoha. To this end, other native categories of the Guarani language express their territorial claims and give content to the tekoha, such as tekoyma, tekopyahu, teko vai, teko porã and karaí, as they demonstrate that the struggle for their ethnic territories is, above all, the resumption of an ideal way of life, similar to the way of life of the "ancients", the one lived before the arrival of the whites - the Karaí - and is possible to be rebuilt today, even incompletely, in the resumption camps. The research was developed in different territorial contexts in the municipality of Dourados / Mato Grosso do Sul State, mainly in the Dourados Indigenous Reserve and in the Apika'y, Pacurity, Ñu Verã, Ñu Porã and Boqueron camps between 2008 and 2013. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The struggle for land is interpreted throughout this article as a historical-structural issue intrinsic to the formation processes of the Brazilian territory and development of the capitalist mode of production in the field. Because of that, this article aims to understand the spatial process of the Landless Workers' Movement (MST), which occurs through land occupations and encampments in the state of São Paulo in different historical and geographical contexts. The first historical and geographical context corresponds to the late 1980s and early 1990s, in which the MST spatial process occurred through multidimensionamento of spaces of political socialization. The second historical and geographical context concerns the late 1990s and early 2000s, in which there was overlapping of spaces of political socialization. And finally, the third context is the present. We understand from reading literature, the survey data and empirical research that the struggle for land camps became precarious political socialization spaces and / or incomplete, in which socio-spatial relations and, consequently, organizational are sporadic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]