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Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks, and
Resistances contributes to ongoing debates on the processes of
change in the Amazon, a region inherently tied to the expansion of
internal and external socio-economic and environmental frontiers.
This book offers interdisciplinary analyses from a range of
scholars in Europe, Latin America, and the United States that
question the methods of development and the range of
socio-ecological impacts of those methods by examining the
theoretical, methodological, and empirical dimensions of
frontier-making along with evaluating and refining existing
frameworks. Contributors focus on the complex politics of border
formation shaped by institutional, economic, and political forces,
placing them in relation to ethical, imaginary, and symbolic
elements. In doing so, contributors explore the dynamic production
of identities, values, and subjectivities, covering matters of
migratory patterns, complex power struggles, and intensive-at times
violent-clashes. Among other topics, this book assesses the recent
encroachment of export-driven agribusiness into the Amazon Region
in the context of recolonization, resource exploitation and
multiple programs of modernization and national integration.
Scholars of Latin American studies, international development,
environmental studies, and applied social sciences will find this
book particularly useful.
Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks, and
Resistances contributes to ongoing debates on the processes of
change in the Amazon, a region inherently tied to the expansion of
internal and external socio-economic and environmental frontiers.
This book offers interdisciplinary analyses from a range of
scholars in Europe, Latin America, and the United States that
question the methods of development and the range of
socio-ecological impacts of those methods by examining the
theoretical, methodological, and empirical dimensions of
frontier-making along with evaluating and refining existing
frameworks. Contributors focus on the complex politics of border
formation shaped by institutional, economic, and political forces,
placing them in relation to ethical, imaginary, and symbolic
elements. In doing so, contributors explore the dynamic production
of identities, values, and subjectivities, covering matters of
migratory patterns, complex power struggles, and intensive-at times
violent-clashes. Among other topics, this book assesses the recent
encroachment of export-driven agribusiness into the Amazon Region
in the context of recolonization, resource exploitation and
multiple programs of modernization and national integration.
Scholars of Latin American studies, international development,
environmental studies, and applied social sciences will find this
book particularly useful.
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