A crise do território-região cacaueira da Bahia : os nós discursivos nas tramas do poder local para manter o território ? 1980-2010

Abstract

In this work, our objectives are to demonstrate, through discourse analysis, that cocoa farmers intend to persuade the population and the State that there is a regional crisis - the crisis of the cocoa region of Bahia Sul - with the time limits, territorial and consubstantial told by them, a regional crisis and of everyone, in order to obtain trumps and continue to dominate the territory once conquered; and that the breaking of this discourse occurs with disruption of the customary form of state intervention in times of crisis between the decades of from 1930 to 1980. There is the formation of a discursive group, by the cocoa farmers, for everyone to have the same perceptual frameworks on regional cocoa crisis and, at the same time, mechanisms are built to interdict dissenting voices to territorial domination by this group of local power. Through the exercise of power, the cocoa crisis is no longer a decisive moment and uncertainties to acquired a lasting character (over 20 years), indicating that it will be extended while the crisis is not resolved to cocoa farmers. Its counterpart, the emergence, also gain temporal elasticity, claims to help cocoa farmers continue. To reach our objectives, we reviewed the following discursive materials: emails sent to the Cocoa List, between 27 Feb, 2009 and 19 Nov, 2010; interviews with cocoa farmers and workers, based on oral history, statistical data collected in official websites; textual genres obtained in the Mercado do Cacau and Canal Rural websites; documentaries; reports; references around the territory, region and power relations in the territorial domain. We analyze the speeches on the cocoa crisis according to Foucault (1979, 2008a, 2008b, 2009).