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Rethinking Polanyi’s Fictitious Commodities Based on the Brazilian Nuclear Segment

2021; PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO; Volume: 43; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0102-8529.2019430200007

1982-0240

Márcio Moutinho Abdalla,

Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to show evidence of the undetermined expansion of Polanyi’s fictitious commodities within the Brazilian nuclear context. The issue of the marketification of social agendas has drawn a lot of attention to the data, collected through in-depth interviews. The analytical process was guided by the decolonial theory approach and by critical discourse analysis. Among the analysis’ main findings, it is possible to point out the elaboration of a framework which reveals the mechanisms employed by the Brazilian nuclear segment as a way of exercising parallel power and silencing social agendas. The main contributions are the temporal and geopolitical updating of Polanyi’s thesis; and the definition of the mechanisms used by the company Eletronuclear and by institutions as a way of co-optation, naturalisation and marketification of social and political agendas.