Memory and peasant identity of women from agricultural community Capão Seco (DF)

Abstract

The scenery of middle west regions is been altered the last decades by the introduction of agricultural ways align with captalism, also known as agribusiness. The community of Capão Seco is located at the Federal District, near the region called PAD-DF (farmers settlement born in 1977, which primary goal was to bring agribusiness to the region). That said, it's intended to understand how important is cerrado bioma on the identity construct of its dwellers. Thus, interviews were taken with women that lives for decades at the Capão Seco rural community, aiming the registry of knowledge and wisdom about the region and how they perceive the chances introduced by agribusiness, taking into account that it leads to cerrado bioma devastation.  It isn't just about to understand how the region changed, but give voice to those who lived there most of their lifes. Their memory may be able to pinpoint the paradoxes between the modern processes introduced by agribusiness and exaustion of cerrado bioma, which has relegated to the past the traditional elements of rural communities.

Keywords: Peasant identity. Women. Memory. Cerrado bioma.