A Military-Green Biopolitics: The Brazilian Amazon Between Security and Development
Since the 1960s, the Brazilian defense policy toward the Amazon has been oriented by the security/development binomen. This was simultaneously a directive for the Brazilian authoritarian regime and for US defense doctrine for the Americas. We argue in this paper that despite the structural influence...
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| description | Since the 1960s, the Brazilian defense policy toward the Amazon has been oriented by the security/development binomen. This was simultaneously a directive for the Brazilian authoritarian regime and for US defense doctrine for the Americas. We argue in this paper that despite the structural influence of US hemispherical security and defense strategy, the formulation of an Amazonian defense strategy by the Brazilian military responded to peculiarities attached to local military historical practices regarding civilizational values, concepts of security and development, and geopolitical targets. We claim that Brazilian defense strategy towards the Amazon is a local manifestation of a biopolitical approach to both the forest and its natural resources and to its population. It is our goal to point out that the local version for the duality security/development has been a manifestation of a set of technologies of government in a biopolitical strategy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5a4b084be27745b389fbcbf633c928542023-08-13T22:06:06ZengBrazilian Political Science AssociationBrazilian Political Science Review1981-38212021-05-0115210.1590/1981-3821202100020006A Military-Green Biopolitics: The Brazilian Amazon Between Security and DevelopmentThiago Rodrigueshttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0962-0391Mariana Kalilhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1302-8339Since the 1960s, the Brazilian defense policy toward the Amazon has been oriented by the security/development binomen. This was simultaneously a directive for the Brazilian authoritarian regime and for US defense doctrine for the Americas. We argue in this paper that despite the structural influence of US hemispherical security and defense strategy, the formulation of an Amazonian defense strategy by the Brazilian military responded to peculiarities attached to local military historical practices regarding civilizational values, concepts of security and development, and geopolitical targets. We claim that Brazilian defense strategy towards the Amazon is a local manifestation of a biopolitical approach to both the forest and its natural resources and to its population. It is our goal to point out that the local version for the duality security/development has been a manifestation of a set of technologies of government in a biopolitical strategy.https://brazilianpoliticalsciencereview.org/article/a-military-green-biopolitics-the-brazilian-amazon-between-security-and-development/amazonbiopoliticssecurity/development binomen |
| spellingShingle | Thiago Rodrigues Mariana Kalil A Military-Green Biopolitics: The Brazilian Amazon Between Security and Development Brazilian Political Science Review amazon biopolitics security/development binomen |
| title | A Military-Green Biopolitics: The Brazilian Amazon Between Security and Development |
| title_full | A Military-Green Biopolitics: The Brazilian Amazon Between Security and Development |
| title_fullStr | A Military-Green Biopolitics: The Brazilian Amazon Between Security and Development |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Military-Green Biopolitics: The Brazilian Amazon Between Security and Development |
| title_short | A Military-Green Biopolitics: The Brazilian Amazon Between Security and Development |
| title_sort | military green biopolitics the brazilian amazon between security and development |
| topic | amazon biopolitics security/development binomen |
| url | https://brazilianpoliticalsciencereview.org/article/a-military-green-biopolitics-the-brazilian-amazon-between-security-and-development/ |
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