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Nationalizing Nature - Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border (Hardcover)
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Nationalizing Nature - Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies
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Today, one-quarter of all the land in Latin America is set apart
for nature protection. In Nationalizing Nature, Frederico Freitas
uncovers the crucial role played by conservation in the region's
territorial development by exploring how Brazil and Argentina used
national parks to nationalize borderlands. In the 1930s, Brazil and
Argentina created some of their first national parks around the
massive Iguazu Falls, shared by the two countries. The parks were
designed as tools to attract migrants from their densely populated
Atlantic seaboards to a sparsely inhabited borderland. In the
1970s, a change in paradigm led the military regimes in Brazil and
Argentina to violently evict settlers from their national parks,
highlighting the complicated relationship between authoritarianism
and conservation in the Southern Cone. By tracking almost one
hundred years of national park history in Latin America's largest
countries, Nationalizing Nature shows how conservation policy
promoted national programs of frontier development and border
control.
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