Abstract
Dispossession is not a recent process in capitalism history. Still, its contemporary form evidences sophisticated elements that pervade the permanence of violent land appropriation and outlines legal subjection forms. The article rescues the reflections on primitive accumulation, discussing the processes of dispossession associated with the legal form in the specificity of the Brazilian colonial-modern transition. The analysis considers how it is expressed in urban evictions, rural land conflicts, struggles of traditional communities for their territories, and deterritorializations related to environmental disasters calculated and justified by the metrics of economic development discourses.
Keywords:
Private property; Land conflicts; Despossession; Legal subjection