Amazônia em disputa

das engrenagens do capital às pegadas invertidas

Abstract

The article examines the multiple dimensions of the ongoing socioecological collapse, addressing the contradictions of capitalism in the global market under the rhetoric of sustainability, the advance of environmental financialization, and technological modernization subordinated to green extractivism and the expansion of agribusiness. Based on a material-historical and decolonial approach, it argues that the Amazon occupies a strategic role in this process, not only as a territory of high biodiversity but as an epicenter of disputes between development models, forms of nature appropriation, and civilizational alternatives. The region is taken as an interpretive line that reveals the historical continuity of expropriation dynamics, the rearticulation of colonial logics, and the deepening of asymmetries between the Global North and South. The analysis is structured around three core axes: i) the sociometabolism of capital in the global market, which compromises life systems both materially and symbolically; ii) the impasses of the Brazilian agrarian question, including land concentration and productive modernization; iiii) and the mechanisms of certification, compensation, and traceability that instrumentalize the Amazon as a financial asset in global markets. The article concludes that an effective socioecological transition requires a rupture with the structures of capitalist reproduction and the recognition of the Amazon as a territory of resistance, regeneration, and sovereignty.