The (Im)Possibility of Agonistic Politics
The Belo Monte Dam and the Symbolic Order of Dispossession
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8944337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Weißermel (0000-0002-8755-4625, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, corresponding author), Sören Weißermel |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 126 |
| Pages | 91-100 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geoforum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.07.014 |
| OpenAlex | W3187605219 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
This paper analyzes the struggle around dispossession in the context of the Belo Monte Dam in the Brazilian Amazon. The construction consortium dominated the process of dispossession with politics of non-recognition that assigned valuelessness to local ways of life and concepts of property. Aggravated by the prevalence of clientelistic relations that blocked formal negotiation opportunities, this induced a process of fragmentation and the precarization of many residents. However, some residents organized and offered resistance. Through performative acts of citizenship, they constituted themselves as political subjects and transformed the conflict into an agonistic struggle. Nevertheless, they continued to be dominated by the consortium and in their resistance forcedly legitimized its politics of displacement. This paper argues that consideration of the way politics, people and their struggle around dispossession and citizenship are entangled with the symbolic order is crucial for understanding and promoting political struggles and advancing agonistic theory
Aesthetics · Agonistic behaviour · Archaeology · Citizenship · Context (archaeology · Geography · Negotiation · Performative utterance · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Possession (linguistics · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Water Governance and Infrastructure
In Place/Out of Place
Theorizing Acts of Citizenship
A casa & a rua
Insurgent Citizenship
Vulnerability in Resistance
Performativity, precarity, and Sexual Policies
The Human Condition
The New Imperialism
Suffering, justice, and the politics of becoming
Consequências Do Neodesenvolvimentismo Brasileiro Para as Políticas Públicas De Crianças E Adolescentes
Possessory politics and the conceit of procedure
Political geography
Dispossession and the Depletion of Social Reproduction
The Transnationalisation of Competing State Projects
Acts of Desertion
Public Space as Emancipation
Asylum and the Post-Political
The politics of embodied urban precarity
Subaltern counter-urbanism
Dis/possessive collectivism
Não há peixe para pescar neste verão
Struggles over Recognition and Distribution
Introduction to Engin Isin's Being Political
Spaces of citizenship
Engaging, being, political
Violence and public health in the Altamira region
Spaces of displacement and the potentialities of (post)citizenship
The refugee camp as a space of multiple ambiguities and subjectivities
Crescimento Econômico na Fronteira e a Dinâmica Urbana na Amazônia paraense
Towards a conceptual understanding of dispossession - Belo Monte and the precarization of the riverine people
Occupied! Property, Citizenship and Peasant Movements in Rural Java
Access and Property
The agonic freedom of citizens
Engaging the Brazilian state
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |