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Unsettling Agribusiness - Indigenous Protests and Land Conflict in Brazil (Hardcover)
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Unsettling Agribusiness - Indigenous Protests and Land Conflict in Brazil (Hardcover)
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In the last half century Brazil's rural economy has developed
profitable soy and sugarcane plantations, causing mass displacement
of rural inhabitants, deforestation, casualization of labor, and
reorganization of politics. Since the early 2000s Indigenous
peoples have protested the taking of their land and transformed
terms provided by state institutions, NGOs, agribusiness firms, and
myriad local middlemen toward their material survival, leading to
significant violence from third-party security forces. Guarani
protestors have confronted these armed security forces through a
form of life-or-death political theater and spectacle on the sides
of highways, while squatters have viscerally disturbed the
landscape and enlivened long-standing genocide and settler-colonial
violence. In Unsettling Agribusiness LaShandra Sullivan analyzes
the transformations in rural life wrought by the
internationalization of agribusiness and contests over land rights
by Indigenous social movements. The protest camps, by reclaiming
the countryside as a site of residence and not merely one of
abstract maximized agribusiness production, call into question the
meanings and stakes of Brazil's political model. The squatter
protests complicated federal attempts to balance land reform with
economic development imperatives and imperiled existing
constellations of political and economic order. Unsettling
Agribusiness encompasses the multiple scales of the conflict,
maintaining within the same frame of analysis the unique operations
of daily life in the protest camps and the larger political,
economic, and social networks of pan-Indigenous activism and
transnational agribusiness complexes of which they are a part.
Sullivan speaks to the urgent need to link the dual preoccupations
of multi-scalar political-economic change and the ethno-racial
terms in which Indigenous people in Brazil live today.
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