TERRITORY

Inspired by the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, this article proposes political phenomenology as an ethnographic method to analyze a community of landless workers in southern Brazil. More specifically, it mobilizes Merleau Ponty s concepts of institution, experience, expression, sign and style to describe the political experience of the landless. This analytical framework is applied in the field to illuminate the processes of political subjectivity and community formation as they developed in a group of individuals associated with the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) as they occupied land for survival.

Este livro é resultado do workshop “Clientelismo e Violência na América Latina e no Caribe”, realizado em dezembro de 2013, na Universidade de Carleton, Ottawa, Canadá.