From mining to hydroelectric: the recent face of territorial dynamics in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon

Abstract

Since the period of the military dictatorship in Brazil, Amazon has become
the focus through public and credit policies to privilege the interests of capital over
traditional people (riverine people, fishermen, quilombolas, indigenous people), secular
settled population, and other subjects (landless workers, those settled in agrarian
reform projects). They are forcibly deterritorialized in this logic of integration of
national and international capital in the exploration and production of commodities
in this space. This paper aims to portray the recent perspective of the last two decades
of territorialization process of international interest, with the inflow of large capital
resources, such as mining and hydroelectric energy production. The methodology
used was the case study, with interviews, documentary, and bibliography research.
These enterprises, of great magnitude of socio-territorial transformations, tend to
provoke a new process of deterritorialization of hundreds of families of rural workers,
as in the case of those settled in agrarian reform projects, riverine people, quilombolas,
and indigenous people.