Os desafios socioambientais do campesinato no espaço rural do município de Brejo Grande/Sergipe/Brasil

Abstract

In northeastern Brazil, conflicts, social and regional inequality still persist, involving peasant reproduction consolidated by the economic development model and the performance of the agents of capital. This work reports the territorialization of the peasantry and the socioenvironmental challenges produced by the performance of capitalist enterprises in the municipality of Brejo Grande / SE. The analysis is based on literature review, data collection, documentary research and field activity. Shrimp farming is complex across its imperative nature of spatial dynamics against the artisanal fishing with lesser productive environment. The profitability of the fishing activity is subjected to the domain of external agents, while the peasant social reproduction  implies insecurity and socio-environmental damage. This territorial expansion suggests serious deterritorialization of the fishermen peasants