Quando o dom se torna mercadoria fictícia:

uma análise da mercadorização da Amazônia à luz de Polanyi e Francisco

Abstract

This article analyzes the commodification of the Amazon by connecting the ideas of Karl Polanyi and Pope Francis. Though from distinct traditions—Polanyi's critique of the self-regulating market and Francis’s Catholic Social Teaching—both converge in denouncing the commodification of life and defending ethical and ecological limits to capitalist logic. Based on the concept of fictitious commodity and papal documents such as Laudato Si’, Fratelli Tutti, Laudate Deum, and Querida Amazonia, the article discusses how the forest, its peoples, and resources are treated as commodities. It identifies the Economy of Francesco as a contemporary countermovement proposing an economy centered on the common good, social justice, and integral ecology, in contrast to the logic of exploitation and commodification of nature.