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Paradoxes of Practical Exercise of Biopower in the Paraense Amazon

Abstract

This paper was thinking the biopower relations in the Amazon Pará, how they operate letting die, killing in the name of life, confiscating lands, goods and bodies, to update elements of society of sovereignty. Questioning this process is one of the main objectives of this text as it brings picture of the events of the Amazon region of Pará in the field of extermination of indigenous leaders, environmentalists and human trafficking and slave labor work, in addition, sexual exploitation and intense removal of timber and minerals, leaving poverty, environmental destruction and the costs of these problems for the population.

Keywords:
Amazon; biopower; Foucault; rights violations; Brazil

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