Under contemporary extractivist government rationality, cultural, political and symbolical command is essential to support conditions for accumulation and economic ruling over place-based resources and populations. We have argued how this command over population and peoples is to be most conveniently exerted nowadays through population’s own will. Thus, enticing tactics of government are, in principle, to be privileged over coercive ones. In this sense, we have discussed how ‘conduct steering’ territorialization strategies have been unfolding by the state through labor, social and especially land and natural resources policies and discourses simplifying (Scott 1998) and rendering technical (Li 2005) complex land-based social relations as a way of “detaching property from [the control of] any public or communal power, in order to make it entirely subject to the purely economic force of capital” (Wood 2006: 31). But together with this materialist outcome, and in fact as both a means and an result of this economic distribution problematic, the new extractivist government rationality fuels a cultural distribution conflict, “arising from the difference in effective power associated with particular cultural meanings and practices” (Escobar, 2008: 14).