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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.
In this book, Rafael R. Ioris critically revisits the postwar
context in Brazil to reexamine traditional questions and notions
pertaining to the nature of Latin America's political culture and
institutions. It was in this period that the region lived some of
its most intense and successful experiences of fast economic
growth, which was paradoxically marred by heightened ideological
divisions, political disruptions, and the emergence of widespread
authoritarian rule. Combining original sources of political,
diplomatic, intellectual, cultural, and labor histories, Ioris
provides a comprehensive history of the fruitful debates concerning
national development in postwar Brazil, a time when the so-called
country of the future faced one of its best moments for
consolidating political democracy and economic prosperity. He
argues that traditional views on political instability have been
excessively grounded on an institutional focus, which should be
replaced by in-depth analysis of events on the ground. In so doing,
he reveals that as national development meant very different things
to multiple different social segments of the Brazilian society, no
unified support could have been provided to the democratically
elected political regime when things rapidly became socially and
politically divisive early in the 1960s. Innovating in its
multidimensional analytical scope and interdisciplinary focus,
Transforming Brazil provides a rich political, cultural, and
intellectual examination of a historical period characterized by
rapid socio-economic changes amidst significant political
instability and the heightened ideological polarization shaping the
political scenario of Brazil and much of Latin America in the Cold
War era.
In this book, Rafael R. Ioris critically revisits the postwar
context in Brazil to reexamine traditional questions and notions
pertaining to the nature of Latin America's political culture and
institutions. It was in this period that the region lived some of
its most intense and successful experiences of fast economic
growth, which was paradoxically marred by heightened ideological
divisions, political disruptions, and the emergence of widespread
authoritarian rule. Combining original sources of political,
diplomatic, intellectual, cultural, and labor histories, Ioris
provides a comprehensive history of the fruitful debates concerning
national development in postwar Brazil, a time when the so-called
country of the future faced one of its best moments for
consolidating political democracy and economic prosperity. He
argues that traditional views on political instability have been
excessively grounded on an institutional focus, which should be
replaced by in-depth analysis of events on the ground. In so doing,
he reveals that as national development meant very different things
to multiple different social segments of the Brazilian society, no
unified support could have been provided to the democratically
elected political regime when things rapidly became socially and
politically divisive early in the 1960s. Innovating in its
multidimensional analytical scope and interdisciplinary focus,
Transforming Brazil provides a rich political, cultural, and
intellectual examination of a historical period characterized by
rapid socio-economic changes amidst significant political
instability and the heightened ideological polarization shaping the
political scenario of Brazil and much of Latin America in the Cold
War era.
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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