Processes of capitalist accumulation and territorial conflicts in the Cerrado

Abstract

It should apprehend that the process of capitalist accumulation and discussed herein territorial conflicts bind directly to the neo-colonialism of the phenomenon, which causes intense acts of violence against indigenous people and traditional communities, greatly experienced in the Latin American countries in recent decades. Therefore, deals with this reality based on the brazilian cerrado. Shaped by violence against indigenous peoples and traditional communities, geraizeiros (cerrado residents north of Minas Gerais), vazanteiros (riverine people living in the savanna along the rivers San Francisco, Tocantins and Araguaia) and others that are organized and surviving family work , the cerrado has been the target of large capitalist enterprises initiated from a geopolitical that is anchored in the occupation and management of territories in poor or developing countries