This doctoral research aims to develop an interpretive framework with which to examine large international logistics infrastructure projects in ways that do not reiterate the already-known and extensively explored analytical scripts advanced under the banner of development, modernization, a framework which does not remain circumscribed to the conceptual and analytical limits of approaches structured by the paradigm of inclusion-exclusion or inclusion-expulsion. This paradigm continues to inform methods and approaches in political sociology and international politics applied to the investigation of the international politics of industrial port infrastructure. Nevertheless, from recent critical work delving into processes of so-called globalization to international political economy forums in Brazil, there is a perceived sense of inadequacy of long-established critical repertoires and lexicons in responding to the political scenario. In this context, the dissertation is articulated along the lines of what we designate as politics of the underground, which effectively seeks to elaborate the political equation that allows for the continued processes of dehumanization, displacement and dispossession of the same racialized groups, and for their permanently undermined cultural, social, political infrastructure. Moving underneath the soil, the research aims to remake the terms according to which we make sense of dynamics that materialize as commercial and territorial wars within the context of these industrial port infrastructure projects. Concepts central to these dynamics, such as land, infrastructure and logistics, are thus rearticulated in the light of the Africandiasporic studies, especially those sharing a common Fanonian lineage, according to the conceptual and genealogical mapping carried out in the research. The fundamental perspective that animates the entire analytical endeavor is that the long-awaited renewal of the analytical repertoire, as expressed in various studies in international politics, political sociology, as well as in human geography and in international political economy, which critically assess these sorts of infrastructure projects, hinges on, as its condition of possibility, an effective engagement with the networks of African-diasporic studies, as well as with (post)colonial historical approaches, forged in dialogical fashion along the trans-Atlantic axis. In this spirit, the research puts forth an analytics from which the concept of desterro emerges. It is precisely by mobilizing the concept of desterro that the work undertakes a critical examination of the most recent critical literature on logistics and infrastructure projects, while seeking to unveil the relationships between dynamics of desterro, past and present, in connection with contemporary logistic practices. The study then directs its critical, historically-informed lenses to the case of the Port of Açu Industrial Logistic Complex, particularly focusing on the constitution of the Port of Açu Industrial District, a moment in which the concept is put into operation. This dissertation intends to contribute to the studies in international politics by shedding light on the critical potential of African-diaspora studies namely in interpreting and opening paths for political disputes over complex transnational political-economic dynamics.