ABSTRACT
This chapter canvases the primary context and sector used as examples to analyze the role of resistance in natural resource politics. The expansion of tree plantations in Brazil is an illustrative case of the rising corporate resource exploitation in the global South. The chapter assesses what mechanisms support the rising role of corporate agency and its support by states, and what kind of impacts this accumulation has had in investment areas. Such analysis of the context and the pushing processes are required better to situate the resistance movements’ actions. The subsequent chapters will use the theoretical framework to illustrate the role resistance can play in this process still largely determined by corporate-state alliances.
