Parliamentary speeches on the Amazon: about what the Brazilian deputies say

• Autor(a) principal: Barros, Antonio Teixeira de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Política & Sociedade (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/article/view/66962

This article analyzes parliamentary discourses on the Brazilian Amazon (2000-2017). The purpose is to examine how the topic was dealt with in the legislative arena, under which perspectives and what arguments are put forward by the deputies. The corpus comprises 2,778 statements,which were categorized into 25 themes, with the aid of NVivo software. The main conclusions show that the value of land as an input for agricultural and livestock production is the predominant argument in the debates, disregarding the international discourse on forestry. The debate isdriven by the agenda of the Executive Branch, especially on the following issues: deforestation, climate, land regularization, preservation areas and indigenous lands. The dominant parliamentary discourse reinforces the anti-ecology thesis of the National Congress, with a clear alignment with the liberal environmental perspective focused on the defense of agribusiness.