Conciliação, disputa e residualidade: A reforma agrária no Brasil durante os governos do PT

This paper analyzes the land reform policy of Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff governments and how the presidential mandates of Workers' Party (PT) constituted a residual land reform in Brazil. The paper aims to systematically compose the meanings and practices of the political conflict between PT’s governments and agrarian movements with sessions that replace data obtained from analysis of electoral and governmental documents, from systematically accompanying national journals, from descriptive analysis of quantitative data on land occupations, available by DATALUTA/UNESP and the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), and from field observations in protest events. These data make it possible to realize that the conciliatory perspective wherewith the PT won the 2002 elections was not based on the government exercise during which contentious arose about agrarian reformism without, however, relieving it of the residual character it assumed after the re-election of Lula da Silva.