Movimentos sociais entre continuidades e inovações: a experiência do Movimento em Defesa da Mata do Engenho Uchôa

Abstract

The social movements burst with spectacular mobilizing and formulating power in the May 1968, profoundly changing agenda, characters and methods involving the social popular struggle so far; from the working class, the working world, the factories sites, to the plurality of subjects, diversity of mottos, occupation of streets, squares, universities, incorporating questions such as peace, race, gender, identity, among others. Bearing this new notion in mind, this work focus the discussion in the social movement called “Movimento em Defesa da Mata do Engenho Uchôa”, studying its role as a changing agent in a given local reality. This movement follows the tradition of social movements in Recife throughout the History of Brazil, being able to place itself as a representative of the desires of several communities neighboring the Engenho Uchôa woodland. However, the movement fits in the dimension regarding the socalled “New Social Movements”, because it is notorious for the defense of the environment, which ascended from a local demand, but is present in a global agenda of collective efforts.