Amazônia Legal como Espaço Global (EG): expansão da fronteira agrícola, neoextrativismo e conflitos socioterritoriais no hot point da economia global

Abstract

The frontiers that make up the territory of the Legal Amazon are based mainly on the territorialization of agricultural activities, from which a development model is proposed for the region, which is considered by transnational capital to be a large “empty space”. The use of this denomination disregards the existence of traditional communities, causes invisibility and takes advantage of this to transform the territory into a place focused on the process of over-accumulation of transnational capital, transforming it into a space of adversity and antagonism, with increasing episodes of violence, destruction of nature and the people who live there, making the place a region of many contradictions and a mirror of this destructive logic. As such, it is necessary to be considered as a territory that systematically triggers

multiple socio-territorial conflicts. The aim of this paper is to portray the occurrence of socio- territorial conflicts in the Amazon and the struggle for land in the last decade (2012-2022),

and how this scenario of violence is configured as a result of the exacerbation of destructive processes of land dictated by transnational capital. The extension of the Amazon is understood in this research as a Global Space (GS), in which its borders are based mainly on the territorialization of agricultural and neo-extractivist activities. In this way, it becomes a hot point for the global economy, precisely because the Amazon frontier becomes a social space that makes use of violence to expand the exploitative dynamics of neo-extractivism.