ABSTRACT
In the early 1960s, a series of conflicts in Goiás revealed the worsening of the dispute for the right to effectively use land. Led by small posseiros, these struggles were marked by the obstinacy with which the rural poor defended their land rights based on a sense of justice that legitimized land seizures as well as being based on practices that linked land rights to effective cultivation. Examining these conflicts helps us to lay bare the consecrated idea of the existence of absolute private property to the extent that the struggle of posseiros in Goiás, as well as a struggle for land ownership, was characterized by a dispute over new understandings about the right to property and land uses.
Keywords:
property; land rights; Goiás