A fronteira Médio-Norte de Mato Grosso : região de expropriação, acumulação e concentração de terra

Abstract

This study focuses on the analysis of the persistence of primitive accumulation in contemporary times, which materializes in the expropriation of land, particularly in the border areas of the mid-north of Mato Grosso, between the years 2010 and 2020. The main objective that guided it was the to analyze the current process of land expropriation in the border region of Sinop, Sorriso, Lucas do Rio Verde and Nova Mutum, based on the articulation between territorial and agrarian land demarcation policies in the region, revealing their configurations, developments and consequences. Its focus lies on the concentration of land and the loss of territory of rural communities, in relation to their historical connections with the land. Recognizing the predominance of capitalist social reproduction, this research highlights that expropriation and land usurpation have been strategies for the expansion of this system. Supported by the perspective of historical-dialectical materialism in the interpretation of capitalist society, its multiply determined complex reality and the agrarian issue in this configuration, it adopts a bibliographic and documentary approach of an exploratory nature, combined with qualitative methods, seeking to trace the socio-historical course of the issue agrarian, especially in the State of Mato Grosso, highlighting the historical expropriation, concentration and centralization of capital. The results reveal processes of exploitation in the land issue in Mato Grosso, highlighting the contradictions inherent to the capitalist mode of production and derived relationships between land, power and capital. The dynamics of capital accumulation in the State resulted in the loss of lives of original peoples, subjecting them to a mercantile logic. Expropriation emerges as a central element that illustrates the cruel nature of capitalist domination and accumulation. The challenges faced by the rural population range from the recognition of their unequal condition to the struggle undertaken to guarantee access and use of land for the production and reproduction of their way of life.