Abstract
Since the 1990s, the interests of local populations have become increasingly interlinked with various global interests, such as the search for land for agro-industrial production; the protection of Indigenous peoples, forests, biodiversity and the climate; the fight against terrorism and the search for secure borders; and the demand for licit and illicit goods—from metals to energy resources to narcotics. In these circumstances, local populations see their livelihood and security often overlooked, enter a spiral of short-lived informal survival strategies, and become vulnerable to the criminalization of their social and economic reproduction. This chapter assesses the effects of national and global governance from the bottom-up perspective of Brazilian peripheries.
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Kurtenbach and Lock 2004: 49.
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Kurtenbach and Lock 2004: 50.
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Glenny 2008: 6.
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CPT, land conflicts in 2016: www.cptnacional.org.br/index.php/component/jdownloads/send/4-areas-em-conflito/14039-areas-em-conflito-2016
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IBGE announced the next census in April 2017: http://mundogeo.com/blog/2017/04/03/ibge-anuncia-o-censo-agropecuario-2017/
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About 40 per cent of the Amazon is under special regimes.
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There is only one institution informal land users can approach besides their trade unions (STRs): the Ministério Público (MPE), an independent and often proactive state attorneyship, present in almost all municipalities.
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Quilombo is the term for villages of descendants of African slaves; legally, they dispose of special collective land rights, but practically, it is very difficult to claim those rights.
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Hecht 2011: abstract.
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Schönenberg, R. (2019). Collateral Damage of Global Governance on the Local Level: An Analysis of Fragmented International Regimes in the Brazilian Amazon. In: Polese, A., Russo, A., Strazzari, F. (eds) Governance Beyond the Law. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05039-9_8
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