This article delves into the enduring question of what propels people to keep fighting when failure, to a certain extent, seems inevitable. I draw specifically from the case of the Capão das Antas Camp—a rural occupation in the state of São Paulo, Brazil—entangled in a repossession process since 2011. Amid a complex relationship with the land that both exhausts and heals, the residents are not merely seeking land rights but are fundamentally engaged in a struggle for home. Positioned within what I term ethnographies of endless struggles, I argue that the fight for their home is also the fight for a collective dream of agrarian reform that unites people in the present and across time. This is why, despite—or perhaps because of—the inevitability of failure, people choose to stay.
A Land of Love and Exhaustion: making a home for a collective project of hope
Júlia Aricó Savarego
Edição, volume, número
v. 81, n. 2
Ano
2025
Periódico
Journal Of Anthropological Research
Editora
University of Chicago Press
Páginas
220-246
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