Juventudes em contexto de ruralidades: uma história de ausência do estado

Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyze how the process of youth development takes place in rural contexts and how access or not to social policies can contribute to this process. Our research is classified as field, qualitative and documentary. The research tools adopted were: conversation circles and semi-structured interviews with young people who live in the rural area of the municipality of Tocantínia - TO and attend high school in the evening, at the rural teaching extension of the Baptist State School Professor Beatriz Rodrigues da Silva. As for the results and discussions, we identified difficulties in accessing the community due to the distance and quality of the roads, which contributes to young people and their families not having access to basic social policies. In this sense, we found that the promotion of rights provided for in the Youth Statute and the Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA) becomes a utopia, pointing to an absence of the state, which is more pronounced in rural contexts. We noticed that even though some of the young people interviewed have plans to develop in the countryside, the difficulties of access to work, study and leisure have led the vast majority of young people to have a low outlook on rural life, thus promoting an exodus in search of better living conditions. These facts have an impact on the development of these young people in rural contexts, showing that enjoying the bourgeois ideals of childhood and adolescence is directly related to social class. Finally, in order for these young people to develop to their full potential, they need to move to another form of sociability, based on collective working class movements. Until this happens, the challenge remains to minimally guarantee social rights, taking into account the uniqueness and needs of rural life.