When crime becomes law

Legislative attacks on rural people's rights and nature in Brazil

Authors

  • Marco Antonio Mitidiero Junior Universidade Federal da Paraíba
  • Brenna da Conceição Moizés Federal University of Paraíba
  • Lucas Araújo Martins Universidade Estadual Paulista

Keywords:

Laws, Assaults, Crimes, Rural People, Nature

Abstract

The aim of this text is to present and analyse political‒legislative actions of both the legislative and executive branches of government in the proposal of bills which signify retrogressions on the rights of rural men and women and on nature preservation, actions that  have prompted us to propose the notion of ‘assault against the rural people’. We focus on the period 2016‒2020, the period surrounding the coup d’etat in Brazil, the 2018 election and the first year of an extreme right-wing government rallied around Jair Bolsonaro. The survey results show that the proposal of new bills of law in Brazil constitutes a type of violence which tends to legitimate environmental and social crime.

Author Biographies

Marco Antonio Mitidiero Junior, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Marco Antonio Mitidiero Junior, is professor at the Department of Geography and the Graduate Program in Geography at the Federal University of Paraíba. As well as professor of the Graduate Program in Geography at the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS) and the Graduate Program in Territorial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (TerritoriAL).

Brenna da Conceição Moizés, Federal University of Paraíba

Brenna da Conceição Moizés, is Master’s degree researcher of the Graduate Program in Geography at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB).

Lucas Araújo Martins, Universidade Estadual Paulista

Lucas Araújo Martins, is Master’s researcher of the Graduate Program in Geography at the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP- Presidente Prudente).

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Published

2022-07-08