Inclusive Development and the Asymmetric State: Big Projects and Local Communities in the Brazilian Amazon

In 2003, the Workers' Party took federal office in Brazil on an agenda of social inclusion and popular participation. This paper explores attempts to implement that agenda in big infrastructure projects in the Amazon: the BR-163 road and the Belo Monte dam. We argue that overlapping inequalitie...

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Published in:The Journal of development studies 2017-06, Vol.53 (6), p.857-872
Main Authors: Abers, Rebecca Neaera, Oliveira, Marília Silva de, Pereira, Ana Karine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amazon
Brazil
Bureaucracy
Community
Deforestation
Developing countries
Economic development
Infrastructure
LDCs
Social exclusion
Social groups
Social participation
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Summary:In 2003, the Workers' Party took federal office in Brazil on an agenda of social inclusion and popular participation. This paper explores attempts to implement that agenda in big infrastructure projects in the Amazon: the BR-163 road and the Belo Monte dam. We argue that overlapping inequalities (between social groups, within the bureaucracy and between territorial centre and periphery) result in uneven state capacities for implementing projects in the Amazon. This framework helps explain why the government has moved much faster in building infrastructure than in implementing participatory social and environmental programmes that would benefit affected local communities.
ISSN:0022-0388
1743-9140
DOI:10.1080/00220388.2016.1208177