Territorializing land conflict: Space,place, and contentious politics in the Brazilian Amazon |
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Authors: | Cynthia S Simmons |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Geography, Michigan State University, 321 Geography Building, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA |
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Abstract: | Brazil possesses a long history of violent struggle for land, and its most recent phase is occurring predominantly in the
Amazon Basin. Consequently, this paper attempts to territorialize land conflict in the Brazilian Amazon, and in so doing,
to illuminate the place-specific intersection of historic social, political, and economic circumstance that created a violent
landscape in the so-called “South of Pará.” The paper’s premise is that such conflict can be best viewed as resulting from
a dialectic between general social processes operating across spatial scales, which create necessary conditions for conflict,
and place-specific historical circumstances that transform necessary into sufficient conditions. The paper presents a framework
integrating the theory of contentious politics and literatures addressing violence associated with the Amazonian frontier
and with resource scarcity (and abundance). The discussion and theoretical application deconstruct the environmental, cognitive,
and relational mechanisms that created violence in the South of Pará, and set the stage for the Eldorado dos Carajás massacre in April of 1996. |
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Keywords: | Amazon basin contentious politics direct action land reform (DALR) land conflict deforestation |
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