REPOSICIONANDO O DEBATE DA FRONTEIRA PARA PENSAR A EXPROPRIAÇÃO E A VIOLÊNCIA NA AMAZÔNIA HOJE

Abstract

This paper aims to approach how the construction around the concept of frontier, both ideological, through thinkers and intellectuals, as well as pragmatic, through State action, has regionally affected the Legal Amazon and contributed to the occurrence of large number of conflicts in the region. For that, some interpretations about the border and its relationship with nation building and progress will be presented. Such discussion is replaced to understand both the history, as well as the current moment of exploration of the Amazon. The analysis uses data on violence in the countryside recorded by “Comissão Pastoral da Terra” (CPT), for the last decade, as well as a bibliographic review about the subject, in addition to reports and surveys carried out by alternative media focusing on the agrarian issue. It is concluded that the expansion of projects on the Amazonian borders is part of a continuous movement of accumulation and expropriation, allowing the establishment of links between the dynamics of frontiers and violence in the region.