The plantation, the emptiness and the ruins: the conception and territorial construction of the Parliamentary Agricultural Front (FPA)
Parliamentary Agricultural Front (FPA), territory, private property, indigenous lands, plantation
This work aims to carry out an ethnography of the conception and territorial construction of the Parliamentary Agricultural Front (FPA) about indigenous lands in Brazil's Amazon region. Based on a theoretical framework that relates a vast bibliography on the historical and economic structuring of private land ownership as a hegemonic conception of territory in the country, the history of the formation of the ruralist political project in the Brazilian National Congress, and concepts from contemporary anthropological theories, including plantation, emptiness and ruins, the research aims to investigate ontological aspects of the rhetoric that makes up the strategies of the FPA's parliamentarians against communal territories. To this end, it will analyse data produced through a documentary survey of FPA actions between 2019 and 2024, considering proposals, pronouncements in committees and institutional communication, and ethnographic fieldwork in the National Congress.