“Good Morning, Poet, How Are You?” Peasant Poetry and Its Vitality in Sertão do Pajeú (Brazil)

Caio de Meneses Cabral () and David Gallar-Hernández
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Caio de Meneses Cabral: Sociology and Peasant Studies Institute (ISEC), Department of Social Sciences—Sociology, University of Cordoba, 14071 Cordoba, Spain
David Gallar-Hernández: Sociology and Peasant Studies Institute (ISEC), Department of Social Sciences—Sociology, University of Cordoba, 14071 Cordoba, Spain

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 8, 1-23

Abstract: The present paper discusses the presence and vitality of peasant poetry as an expression of the peasant way of life in Sertão do Pajeú (Brazil), and it seeks to understand to what extent it can play an important role in the territory, such as agroecological organizations considering work from the concept of “coexistence with the semiarid” as a communication and popular education tool. We performed semi-structured interviews, participant observation and bibliographic and documentary research. In addition, we filled in a field journal and took photographic and audiovisual records. We understand peasant poetry as an expression of the popular culture of that territory, produced by peasant poets to interpret, communicate and reaffirm their way of life and their relationship with nature. Peasant poetry is part of the identity and is currently present in the collective memory of Sertão do Pajeú, and it has been guided by agroecological organizations and can become an instrument capable of enhancing the search for environmental sustainability in the territory.

Keywords: agroecology; “coexistence with the semiarid”; peasant poets; popular culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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