Interweaving rich ethnographic descriptions with an innovative
theoretical approach, this book explores and unsettles conventional
maps and understandings of Europe and the Americas. Through an
examination of the recently inaugurated cross-border bridge between
France’s overseas department of French Guiana and Brazil’s
northern state of Amapá, which effectively acts as a one-way
street and serves to perpetuate inequalities in a historically
deeply entangled region, it foregrounds the ways in which
borderland inhabitants such as indigenous women, illegalised
migrants, and local politicians deal with these inequalities and
the increasingly closed Amazonian border in everyday life. A study
that challenges the coloniality of memory, this volume shows how
the borderland along and across the Oyapock River, far from being
the hinterland of France and Brazil, in fact illuminates entangled
histories and their concomitant inequalities on a large scale. As
such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and border studies
with interests in postcolonialism, memory, and inequality.
General
| Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Entangled Inequalities: Exploring Global Asymmetries |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| Authors: |
Fabio Santos
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
154 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-204512-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-03-204512-4 |
| Barcode: |
9781032045122 |
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