Tourism and peasantry in the city of Colombo, PR, Brazil: (co)existence marked by different times

Abstract

In this article we consider tourism as economic activity seated in a capitalist market system, whose movement is marked by quick time that defines characteristics of the space and consumption. On the other hand, we dedicated theoretical effort to set the Brazilian peasantry from the production unit, the land; but also from their culture and way of life, marked by a slow motion kind of life, opposed to the rules that represent the consumer society in general. Thus, the main objective was to discuss the peasant participation in tourism development that takes place in the field, specifically the so-called Italian Circuit of Rural Tourism, in the city of Colombo, in Parana, Brazil. To answer this question we follow the guidelines of the historical dialectic method, from the perspective of discourse analysis present on interviews with farmers. Among the results achieved we can derive that there is resistance in these peasants to be inserted in the Circuit, especially because of the loss of autonomy of their way of life caused by its deeper integration into the entrepreneurship logic.