The political organization of agribusiness and the indigenous peoples' rights

• Grant number: 18/17886-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: January 01, 2019
• End date: June 29, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Maria Manuela Ligeti Carneiro da Cunha
• Grantee: Caio Pompeia Ribeiro Neto
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 20/03413-8 - An ethnography of the rural caucus in Brazil, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

This project proposes the analysis of agribusiness agents' strategies to contest indigenous rights. Deepening the research carried out in the doctorate, the three objectives presented deal with aspects of this contestation that have received growing emphasis in the last few years: the study of the organization and activities of the Instituto Pensar Agropecuária, the main political actor opposing those rights; the critical analysis of the narrative related to the Brazilian role in promoting food security in the country and in the world, a central element of the justificatory apparatus of those agribusiness agents in their criticisms of the demarcation of indigenous lands; and the investigation, through fieldwork, of a paradigmatic case of utilization of an indigenous area for the large-scale production of soy, paying special attention the effects of this activity on the local agricultural system. The theoretical-methodological arrangement puts in relation anthropological analyses of the indigenous rights and their traditional knowledge, the description model of the formation and action of representation collectives of the Antropologia do Político and the theory of justification of the Pragmatic Sociology. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

CAIO POMPEIA. “Agro é tudo”: simulações no aparato de legitimação do agronegócio. Horiz. antropol., v. 26, n. 56, p. 195-224, 2020-03-27. (18/17886-5)

CAIO POMPEIA. As cinco faces do agronegócio: mudanças climáticas e territórios indígenas. Rev. Antropol., v. 66, 2023-10-09. (18/17886-5, 20/03413-8)

CAIO POMPEIA. Máquina homogeneizadora: a Frente Parlamentar da Agropecuária e sua construção de convergência de votos no Congresso Nacional. Vibrant, v. 21, 2024-03-04. (18/17886-5, 20/03413-8)