Collective land rights to resist land grabbing? A contribution on the relationship between countermovements and the state in the Brazilian Amazon

Droits collectifs à la terre pour résister à son accaparement. Une contribution sur la relation contremouvements-État en Amazonie brésilienne

Emma Tyrou ()
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Emma Tyrou: CEPN - Centre d'Economie de l'Université Paris Nord - Université Sorbonne Paris Nord

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Abstract: This article examines resistance to land grabbing through incremental dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon. It draws on qualitative data (25 semi-structured interviews, non-participant observations) and quantitative and institutional data. It mobilizes an institutionalist framework of countermovements to understand how strategies for formalizing collective rights to land enable a degree of resistance to land grabbing. However, the categories of collective formalization based on statization, and the long trend towards setting these collective rights in competition with the formalization of individual rights, represent a challenge for countermovements in Santarém (Pará).

Keywords: Amazon; Brazil; Countermovements; Formalization; Land grabbing; Accaparement des terres; Formalisation; Contremouvements; Brésil; Amazonie (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-09-29
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Published in Mondes en Développement, 2025, N° 53 (2), pp.93-114. ⟨10.3917/med.210.0094⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/med.210.0094

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