Introduction
The intensification of invasion and grabbing of lands in Brazil’s Amazon and Cerrado biomes, the expansion of agribusiness linked to corporate financial strategies, and the re-regulation of land titling and resource licensing continue to generate violent social tensions. The collective resistance of communities in territories affected by contemporary land capitalisation reveals the local and transnational actors involved in speculation and theft. These territorial struggles, which depart from incumbent capital-labour analyses, invite further understanding of the inter-and intra-class tensions, the facilitative role of the state in the value grabbing (Andreucci et al Reference Andreucci, García-Lamarca and Wedekind2017), and the significance of autonomous land occupations and demarcations in confronting capital expansion on resource-rich frontiers.