In this paper we discuss strategies of resistance from residents of a community located on the property of a sugarcane industry. In this research we conducted unstructured interviews with residents, group conversation with plant workers, community visits and records in field diaries. We use the theoretical framework of Michel Foucault to discuss strategies of resistance and power relations in the context under study. The main strategies of resistance visualized relate to design a future outside the plant for future generations, collective and individual confrontations in work situations, and the constitution of social support networks. Despite these subjects are marked by asymmetries of power produced in the context of the monoculture of sugar cane, they are not passive in face of the established ways of life. Besides the violence experienced at the plant, they denounce the precariousness of social policies on an absent state for those who live outside the realm of 'safety' offered in the properties of sugarcane industry.
subjectivation process; resistance strategies; power relations; sugarcane context