O Ideário do desenvolvimento sustentável e a captura das capacidades estatais na Amazônia brasileira: as contradições no caso do estado do Pará

Abstract

This doctoral thesis analyzes how the technical rationalization of life promoted by the capitalist ethos in the agrarian dynamics of the Brazilian Amazon is processed, more specifically in the state of Pará, as well as understanding how these dynamics impact the performance of techno productive trajectories, corroborating or denying the ideals of sustainable development. For this, the timeline of environmental concern linked to the notion of sustainable development was revisited. This notion in the light of critical philosophy is an ethical desire that, through the capitalist logic of a market economy, promotes the colonization of the world of life by the system. This set of ideas materializes on a concrete level in a context marked by competition between techno-productive paths, the dominant ones being those that manage to capture state capacities for regulation and action, shaping institutions in their favor. To verify this hypothesis on a scientific basis, models of multivariate statistics were used - analytically composing Pearson correlations, factor analysis and linear regressions - applied to data from the Agricultural Censuses of Brazil in 1995, 2006 and 2017. It was demonstrated that the employers' trajectories captured more state capacities than the peasants' trajectories, in a movement of colonization of these capacities, also revealing that such trajectories, economically dominant, deny the ideal of sustainable development.