Abstract
In this essay, we reflect on the ambivalences of capitalist expansion in rural areas. If large extractive enterprises, investing in symbols of "modernity", point out their income as a consequence of technological innovations, we draw attention to the way the dynamics of extractive accumulation operates by dispossession. On the one hand, we focus on the degradation of nature, workers and ways of life, carried out by such enterprises; on the other, on the small daily resistances of peasants and workers in this process. For this, we mobilized the peasant imaginary about the figure of the devil, from fieldwork (interviews and conversations held in camps and settlements of struggle for land) and film production, adopting the pact with the devil as a metaphor for expansion.
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