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Amazonian Geographies - Emerging Identities and Landscapes (Hardcover)
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Amazonian Geographies - Emerging Identities and Landscapes (Hardcover)
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Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground. It is
a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares
multiple (trans)national borders and diverse ecological and
cultural landscapes. It is often presented as a seemingly
homogeneous place: a lush tropical jungle teeming with exotic
wildlife and plant diversity, as well as the various indigenous
populations that inhabit the region. Yet, since Conquest, Amazonia
has been linked to the global market and, after a long and varied
history of colonization and development projects, Amazonia is
peopled by many distinct cultural groups who remain largely
invisible to the outside world despite their increasing integration
into global markets and global politics. Millions of rubber
tappers, neo-native groups, peasants, river dwellers, and urban
residents continue to shape and re-shape the cultural landscape as
they adapt their livelihood practices and political strategies in
response to changing markets and shifting linkages with political
and economic actors at local, regional, national, and international
levels. This book explores the diversity of changing identities and
cultural landscapes emerging in different corners of this rapidly
changing region. This book was published as a special issue of the
Journal of Cultural Geography.
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