Making the Rural Countryside Illegible: Eroding Land Registration in the Brazilian Amazon

• In Event: This Land is Your Land: State Capacity and Distributive Politics

Brief Overview

I investigate how national officials can build legibility in regions of limited statehood. I underscore the government’s use of information on landed property and landowner capacity to repeal nonstate threats. The focus is no the Brazilian Amazon.

Author

• Jorge G Mangonnet, Columbia University