The globalisation of a Brazilian cattle corporation
From Developmentalism to Financialisation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2652259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raisa Ramos De Pina (0000-0002-7791-8392) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 113-128 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quaderns de l Institut Català d Antropologia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0211-5557 • E-ISSN: 2385-4472 |
| Publisher | Institut Catala d'Antropologia (ICA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.56247/qua.526 |
| OpenAlex | W4412471006 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
Cattle is not only an economic sector in Brazil but is also a political arena that benefited from historical state policies and international demand in distinct moments. In the 21st century, the country became a global market leader due to the exponential growth of one corporation that escalated to be the world's largest meat company, with persistent state's support. The cattle-state relationship, however, went through several transformations in the past century and cannot be simplified in a superficial analysis of a more recent industrial policy and paternalism based in corruption. This article presents an analysis of cattle capitalism in Brazil to respond to the question: how do one family, the state, and elite capitalists articulate among themselves, and in different moments, to pursue accumulation? The goal is to identify different phases of cattle capitalism in Brazil, ever since the 1950s developmentalism. The conclusions point to the financialisation of cattle as a new stage of Brazilian capitalism. The research method is built on an anthropological inquiry combining the documentary analysis of primary and secondary sources, and interviews with business executives, politicians, market analysts, public servants and other relevant key-informants
Business · Corporation · Developmentalism · Economics · Economy · Globalization · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Rural Development and Agriculture · Finance
Industrial Meat Production
Reinventing State Capitalism
Two theories of money
The ambiguous stance of Brazil as a regional power
New developmentalism in Brazil? The need for sectoral analysis
Meat consumption and capitalist development
The Political Economy of Foreign Investment in Latin America
Nome aos bois. Zebus e zebuzeiros em uma pecuária brasileira de elite
Cattle, capital, and the imagination of self-expanding value
Locating the State
Cattle, Capital, Colonization
National champions' in global meat supply chains
Agri-bolsonarism
Agri-food globalization and food security in Brazil
Deforestation, cattle capitalism and neodevelopmentalism in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, Brazil
Cattle as capital
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |