Bulletin of Latin American Research· 2026Q2
Neoextractivism With Neocolonial Traits: Agribusiness Expansion and Territorial Conflict in Pontal do Paranapanema, Brazil
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Agribusiness and water infrastructure expansion in Pontal do Paranapanema, Brazil, driven by transnational capital, concentrates land and water control while externalizing socio-environmental costs onto local communities.
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Key points
- Agribusiness and water infrastructure expansion reconfigures Pontal do Paranapanema, Brazil.
- Transnational capital, state mediation, and global commodity markets drive territorial reorganization.
- Control over land, water, and infrastructure is concentrated by these mechanisms.
- Socio-environmental costs are externalized onto local communities.
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Abstract
ABSTRACT This article examines how the expansion of agribusiness and water infrastructure has reconfigured Pontal do Paranapanema, Brazil, through neoextractivist dynamics with neocolonial traits. Drawing on documentary analysis and socio‐environmental indicators, it investigates how transnational capital, state mediation and integration into global commodity markets reorganise the territory. The findings show that these mechanisms concentrate control over land, water and strategic infrastructure whilst externalising socio‐environmental costs onto local communities. The article's main contribution lies in distinguishing neoextractivism as a territorial pattern of accumulation from neocolonialism as the power relationship that sustains it.
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