ABSTRACT

There are not fixed conditions that make potential agricultural frontiers attractive to capital: different spaces and strategies are chosen in relation to previous failed experiments, including those strongly contested by social movements. Socio-environmental contestations can also inadvertently result in negative spillovers, or a kind of indirect land use change. I propose a concept of redirected land use and control change for cases with strategic adaptations by promoters of frontiers. I suggest three dimensions of adaptations – across spaces, political-administrative regimes and in forms of land appropriation – to apprehend the multi-scale politics of land grabbing, through the case of Matopiba in Brazil.

摘要

没有固定的条件使潜在的农业前沿对资本具有吸引力：根据先前失败的实验选择不同的空间和策略，包括那些受到社会运动强烈质疑的实验。社会环境争论也可能在不经意间导致负面溢出效应，或一种间接的土地利用变化。我提出了一个重新定向土地利用和控制变化的概念，用于边界推动者进行战略调整的案例。我通过巴西马托皮巴的案例提出了三个适应维度——跨空间、政治行政制度和土地占用的形式——来理解土地掠夺的多尺度政治。