O jogo do land grabbing: soberania, globalização e produção de legalidade

Abstract

The multifactorial crisis of 2008, one of the crises inherent to the globalization of the capitalist mode of production along neoliberal lines, accelerated the global race for land, highlighting the practice of land grabbing at an international level, providing a good backdrop for the analysis on the relationship between sovereignty and globalization based on the analysis of the production of legality that permeates the internationalization of land, or the appropriation of land by foreigners, in Brazil. In this work, based on bibliographical research and data analysis, we sought to define the essential concepts (globalization, sovereignty and land grabbing), as well as the course of events that made land an essential asset for neoliberal capital. We study the rules of the game, knowing the nuances regarding the production of legality about the matter in Brazil; knowledge was deepened with the presentation of the illustrative case of pension funds that control land in Brazil. Finally, we include the dimension of the protection of human rights and other forms of sovereignty as new pieces on the board of this game. The research enabled us to understand how the decentralization of the state apparatus in the context of globalization enables the emergence of other actors in terms of the production of legality, making clear the flaws in the fabric of legally expressed sovereignty when regarding to land grabbing, in addition to indicate possibilities for research in the most diverse areas, among which the rights of traditional peoples and communities and territoriality can be highlighted.