Monopolization of the territory and charcoal production in Amazon: the charcoal production in settlements and camps of agrarian reform and in the traditional charcoal production areas in Rondon do Pará-PA

Author(s)

Mayka Danielle Brito Amaral

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2011-12-01

Examining board members

Larissa Mies Bombardi; Maurílio de Abreu Monteiro; Ariovaldo Umbelino de Oliveira

• Advisor: Larissa Mies Bombardi

Abstract

The paper concerns the territory monopolization process by the capital, present in steel industries, starting from the charcoal production that takes place in the city of Rondon do Pará, located southeastern of the state of Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon. The steel industries constitute the capital materialization, considered uneven, combined and contradictory, that when implemented in the Amazon promoted a subordination relationship of several social actors in different cities, for the production of charcoal. Among these cities, this paper emphasizes the reality of Rondon do Pará, which produces charcoal since the beginning of the steel production in the Amazon. Thus, it was sought to characterize and analyze the territory monopolization due to the charcoal production activity in this city, where it was verified that such production has taken place though employment capitalist production relations and rural non-capitalist production relations. In addition to the traditional charcoal production, through reuse of sawmills and livestock waste, and primary and secondary deforestation, this activity has been introduced in the land reform rural settlements and camps and has substituted food production. Thus, the territory monopolization by the steel industries, starting from the charcoal production, takes place through the appropriation of land peasantry income and surplus value extraction, in traditional charcoal production areas as well as in charcoal production areas located in the interior of land reform rural settlements and camps in the city of Rondon do Pará. (AU)