THE RURAL SPACE IN THE REGION OF THE CAPANHA GAÚCHA: TERRITORIALITIES AND DEVELOPMENT. THE CASE OF THE SETTLEMENT CONQUISTA DO CAIBOATÉ, SÃO GABRIEL-RS

Abstract

The universe of the rural space in the region of the Campanha Gaucha presents a diversity that is configured from the social agents that appropriate this space and transform it in territory. However, the domination of the capitalism over the rural space concerned imposes the conflictuality between different models of development from different territoriality. In this paper it are discussed the meanings of these models from two territorialities: the territoriality of latifundia and agribusiness and the emerging territoriality of rural settlements, with emphasis on the Settlement of Conquista  do Caiboaté, implemented in 2008 in the municipality of São Gabriel-RS. The reflecting about these realities is established from an approach that takes into account the contradictions and the dynamics in which they are inserted. An investigation like that enables to infer that the rural space of the Campanha Gaucha incorporates the process of unequal geographical development of the capitalism uniquely, in which the territoriality of latifundia and of agribusiness it is configured as hegemonic. In turn, the territoriality of the rural settlements, seeking to build alternatives with regard to live and to produce in the land of work, it is characterized as a counter-hegemonic territoriality, from which are built strategies that move toward to the perspective of a model of sustainable rural territorial development,  like in the case of the Settlement Conquista do Caiboaté.