The Trail of Death: a Study on the Impacts of Brazilian Agribusiness from the perspective of Achille Mbembe
: developed under the aegis of Michel Foucault's concepts, namely, of biopolitics and biopower, necropolitics represents the management of death destined to the minorities by neoliberal governments. Thus, the bodies that are not profitable to the capitalist system are left to die. The present w...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC Minas) |
| Repositorio: | Virtuajus |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.pucminas.br:article/34773 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.pucminas.br/virtuajus/article/view/34773 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Necropolítica Agronegócio Política de morte Necropolitics Agribusiness Death policy |
| Sumario: | : developed under the aegis of Michel Foucault's concepts, namely, of biopolitics and biopower, necropolitics represents the management of death destined to the minorities by neoliberal governments. Thus, the bodies that are not profitable to the capitalist system are left to die. The present work seeks to analyze and identify the management of Brazilian agribusiness, from the concept of necropolitics of the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe, in order to understand certain policies adopted by the Brazilian government in the scope of agribusiness as an instrument of death of marginalized populations. Based on the premise raised, the deductive method and the bibliographic research of the qualitative type were used to report measures and actions of the Brazilian State that directly impacted the constitution of the "pesticide" and provided the trail of death caused by it. Thus, it is concluded that molded from the historical perspective of monoculture and toxic land property, the agribusiness, in the form in which it is instituted, highlights conflicts over land ownership, the intense deforestation, the death of native peoples, the poisoning of the people and soil by pesticides and widespread hunger, perpetuating itself as a driving force for the consolidation of “living-dead” communities. |
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