Abstract

ALENCAR, Paulo Gustavo; MIRA DE ESPINDOLA, Giovana  and  SOUSA DE ASSIS, Raimundo Jucier. Land grabbing in Piauí: Municipal governments as a Link in irregular land appropriation. Rev. Geog. Amer. Central [online]. 2024, n.72, pp.155-186. ISSN 2215-2563.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15359/rgac.72-1.6.

This study aims to characterize land grabbing in Piauí based on audits of data from the national land registry and to outline the role of municipal governments in the process of irregular land appropriation. The analyses are anchored in frontier epistemology, taking into account the concept of coloniality formulated by Aníbal Quijano. Bibliographic research and documentary research were used. Based on the data from the audits, it was possible to identify 53 processes with properties with evidence of title chain fraud, of which 17 refer to the irregularity “collection by municipal governments.” The inspection of cadastral data proved to be efficient for the diagnosis of land grabbing, although it needs corrections. Also, 5 fraud groups were identified in real estate records. It was observed that city councils were used as a land reserve strategy to enter the market at the right time. Land grabbing is an inherent function of the modern-colonial capitalist world system itself and represents one of the forms of coloniality in the appropriation of land.

Keywords : land issue; land system; land registry inspection; coloniality; control of the territory.

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