Origens históricas da Organização Odebrecht: retrato da apropriação privada da natureza no Baixo Sul da Bahia-Brasil

Abstract

The historical geography of the Odebrecht Group demonstrates the passage of a brazilian family-owned company that has became a holding company that has been territorialized by more than three dozen countries, thanks to the operation of the businessman-entrepreneur Norberto Odebrecht. What has not been disseminated, whether in the media or in publications by the Organization, is the process of private appropriation of nature that has been conducted by Odebrecht in Bahia during the 20th century. The purpose of this paper is to present the temporal spatialization of the Odebrecht family in the Bahia Southern Lowlands, which reflects the way that Brazilian field (land and water) has been appropriated by transnational companies, mainly with strong State support. Therefore, has been proceeded data collection in researches and publications that demonstrate a series of onslaughts on Bahian rural space in the trajectory of Odebrecht family that has been investigated in light of the theoretical discussion about private appropriation of nature with use of violence in its various dimensions.