Capitalist Dispossessions - Redistribution and Capital Expansion in Contemporary Brazil

This book analyses contemporary dispossessions in Brazil, drawing on the Marxian concept of primitive accumulation to show how processes of proletarianization, capitalization, and commodification each relate in distinct ways to capitalist accumulation.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Primitive, Redistributive, and Capital-Expanding Dispossessions 2. Agricultural Dispossessions during the Military Rule 3. Dispossessing Neoliberal Economic Policy 4. Olympic Urban Dispossessions 5. A Dispossessing Legislative Coup d'État 6. Dispossessions during the Pandemic 7. Capital-Expanding and Capital-Exhausting Dispossession Afterword

About the author

Daniel Bin is an associate professor at the Universidade de Brasília, Brazil. He is the author of The Politics of Public Debt and currently serves as an associate editor of the journal Critical Sociology.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Bin, Daniel (University of Brasilia Bin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032645964
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3264596-4
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Latin America, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Political science & theory, Regional Studies, Political Economy, Regional / International studies, Political science and theory, Development Studies, Hispanic & Latino Studies, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity