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Collateral Damage of Global Governance on the Local Level: An Analysis of Fragmented International Regimes in the Brazilian Amazon

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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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Fig. 8.1

Notes

  1. 1.

    Kurtenbach and Lock 2004: 49.

  2. 2.

    Kurtenbach and Lock 2004: 50.

  3. 3.

    Glenny 2008: 6.

  4. 4.

    CPT, land conflicts in 2016: www.cptnacional.org.br/index.php/component/jdownloads/send/4-areas-em-conflito/14039-areas-em-conflito-2016

  5. 5.

    IBGE announced the next census in April 2017: http://mundogeo.com/blog/2017/04/03/ibge-anuncia-o-censo-agropecuario-2017/

  6. 6.

    www.estadao.com.br/noticias/economia,concentracao-de-terras-aumenta-no-brasil-aponta-ibge,443398,0.html

  7. 7.

    www.sasp.org.br/index.php/notas/75-concentracao-de-terras-na-mao-de-poucos-custa-caro-ao-brasil.html

  8. 8.

    About 40 per cent of the Amazon is under special regimes.

  9. 9.

    PCCDAM: www.amazonfund.gov.br/FundoAmazonia/export/sites/default/site_pt/Galerias/Arquivos/Publicacoes/PPCDAm_3.pdf

  10. 10.

    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.

  11. 11.

    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.

  12. 12.

    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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