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História Oral, cotidiano e disputas fundiárias na construção da capital do Tocantins

Abstract

The construction of the last planned Brazilian capital of the 20th century was marked by land disputes in the 1990’s. The land was, if not the biggest, one of the biggest means of raising financial assets in Tocantins, with the sale of territories in Palmas being a considerable source of income for the state. The land trade was an important market for the state, we wonder how the right to housing was understood by the administrations and how the population of migrant workers developed strategies to guarantee this right, because if the possibility of access to land was via the purchase of land, how would the poor population get their housing? In order to understand economic, social and cultural processes that help us to answer this and other questions, we use oral history as one of the methodologies. To analyze how the life history of migrants approaches and departs from an official memory of the state of Tocantins based on foundations such as free enterprise, minimal state, appreciation of personal effort, meritocracy and enrichment through work. This work intends to present and analyze stories of migrants who, through resistance, conquered their fundamental right to have a territory to call home.