Inclusive Development and the Asymmetric State: Big Projects and Local Communities in the Brazilian Amazon

Rebecca Neaera Abers, Marília Silva de Oliveira and Ana Karine Pereira

Journal of Development Studies, 2017, vol. 53, issue 6, 857-872

Abstract: In 2003, the Workers’ Party took federal office in Brazil on an agenda of social inclusion and popular participation. This paper explores attempts to implement that agenda in big infrastructure projects in the Amazon: the BR-163 road and the Belo Monte dam. We argue that overlapping inequalities (between social groups, within the bureaucracy and between territorial centre and periphery) result in uneven state capacities for implementing projects in the Amazon. This framework helps explain why the government has moved much faster in building infrastructure than in implementing participatory social and environmental programmes that would benefit affected local communities.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2016.1208177

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