Making the Amazon a frontier: where less space is more

Frontier-making has always been fundamental for the circulation and accumulation of capital. The perennity frontier-making is not only due to demand minerals, land or other resources, because frontiers represent fresh market opportunities, but crucially it operates as compensation saturation existing capitalist relations in core areas. At frontier, conventional sequence time space suspended reconfigured, allowing room decompression tensions contradictions. Consequently, spatial function a mirror, where most explicit features capitalism are vividly exposed. This article examines meaning immanence frontiers, considering them laboratory historical geographical agency. It entails reflection upon necessity, configuration contestation paying particular attention economic territorial incorporation Amazon region prospects political resistance.