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This article focuses on the study of socioenvironmental and territorial conflicts, experienced by three Geraizeiras communities in the north of Minas Gerais State. The text starts from the premise that the resistance and struggles for the territorial recovery of the Geraizeiros, which began around the 2000s, were triggered by worsening water scarcity. The realization that the decrease in water from its natural sources was caused by the presence of extensive eucalyptus monocultures in the plateaus and other forms of environmental degradation, led communities to reorganize and reaffirm their identity in the struggle for rights. The Geraizeira identity construction is reaffirmed in the conflict, manifested explicitly from an antagonism with groups that usurped their traditional territories. The strong collective cohesion – maintaining and intensifying reciprocal ties observed among community members in the search for water restoration and conservation of Cerrado biodiversity – has led to the understanding that the struggle for water is now part of this identity construct.Keywords: Geraizeiras communities; identity; traditional territories; water.How to citeSOUZA, Jonielson Ribeiro de; SAUER, Sérgio. Antagonismo e reciprocidade na (re)afirmação identitária dos geraizeiros: luta por território e água no norte de Minas Gerais. Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura, Rio de Janeiro, v. 28, n. 3, p. 676-699, out. 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36920/esa-v28n3-8.Received on June 5, 2020. Accepted on August 21, 2020.