The ideological dimensions and their respective interrelations with the environment, communities, territorialities and conflicts have been contemplated in this study. We have identified social views on world matters which were expressed collectively as well as practices within the appropriation of the territory under dispute, involving the Parque Nacional das Sempre-vivas (National Park of Strawflowers), in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The creation of the park has deterritorialized flower-picking communities, whose means of support is this very activity. Under the basis of preservation ideologies, the park has brought about multiple invisibilities. The parties involved, including the flower-pickers, did not attain to the ideologies, pressure and constraints, but rather, allowed political and resistance issues to escalate.
Flower-pickers; Parque Nacional das Sempre-vivas; ideologies; territorialities; conflicts