Daniel Bin is an associate professor at the Universidade de Brasília, Brazil. He is the author of The Politics of Public Debt and currently serves as an associate editor of the journal Critical Sociology.

Introduction 1. Primitive, Redistributive, and Capital-Expanding Dispossessions 2. Agricultural Dispossessions during the Military Rule 3. Dispossessing Neoliberal Economic Policy 4. Olympic Urban Dispossessions 5. A Dispossessing Legislative Coup d'État 6. Dispossessions during the Pandemic 7. Capital-Expanding and Capital-Exhausting Dispossession Afterword

This book analyses contemporary dispossessions in Brazil, drawing on the Marxian concept of primitive accumulation to show how processes of proletarianization, capitalization, and commodification each relate in distinct ways to capitalist accumulation.