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Modernization and Political Actions in the Brazilian Amazon

Author : João Santos Nahum
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319580302
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Modernization and Political Actions in the Brazilian Amazon written by João Santos Nahum and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an analysis of the territory of Barcarena, in the Brazilian Amazon. The author studies the land use and the implemented modernization policies that made it one of the richest cities of the state. The political system uses this territory as a resource to provide for the needs of a small circle of social agents. A system of conservative political actions enforces the process of modernization of the Baracena territory. Innovations in the Barcarena territory, such as the implementation of the aluminium factory Albras/Alunorte and the territorial configuration or public administration, lead to modernization simulations and artificial devices. The intended effect however is more about appearing to be modern, than actual modernization. The territorial use of Barcarena is aimed to protect the interests and privileges of the elite.

Modernization and Political Actions in the Brazilian Amazon

Author : João Santos Nahum
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319580302
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Flooded

Author : Peter Taylor Klein
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978826141
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Flooded written by Peter Taylor Klein and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of the twentieth century, governments ignored the negative effects of large-scale infrastructure projects. In recent decades, many democratic countries have continued to use dams to promote growth, but have also introduced accompanying programs to alleviate these harmful consequences of dams for local people, to reduce poverty, and to promote participatory governance. This type of dam building undoubtedly represents a step forward in responsible governing. But have these policies really worked? Flooded provides insights into the little-known effects of these approaches through a close examination of Brazil’s Belo Monte hydroelectric facility. After three decades of controversy over damming the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon, the dam was completed in 2019 under the left-of-center Workers’ Party, becoming the world’s fourth largest. Billions of dollars for social welfare programs accompanied construction. Nonetheless, the dam brought extensive social, political, and environmental upheaval to the region. The population soared, cost of living skyrocketed, violence spiked, pollution increased, and already overextended education and healthcare systems were strained. Nearly 40,000 people were displaced and ecosystems were significantly disrupted. Klein tells the stories of dam-affected communities, including activists, social movements, non-governmental organizations, and public defenders and public prosecutors. He details how these groups, as well as government officials and representatives from private companies, negotiated the upheaval through protests, participating in public forums for deliberation, using legal mechanisms to push for protections for the most vulnerable, and engaging in myriad other civic spaces. Flooded provides a rich ethnographic account of democracy and development in the making. In the midst of today’s climate crisis, this book showcases the challenges and opportunities of meeting increasing demands for energy in equitable ways.

Governing the Rainforest

Author : Eve Z. Bratman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190949384
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Governing the Rainforest written by Eve Z. Bratman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable development is often thought of as a product that can be obtained by following a prescribed course of interventions. Rather than conceptualizing it as a sweet spot of economic, ecological, and social balance, sustainable development is an ongoing process of embroilments requiring constant negotiation of often-competing aims. Sustainable development politics yield highly uneven results among different members of society and different geographic areas. As this book argues, such imbalances mean that sustainable development processes often prioritize economic over environmental goals, perpetuating and reinforcing economic and political inequalities. Governing the Rainforest looks at development and conservation efforts in the Brazilian Amazon, where the government and corporate interests bump up against those of environmentalists and local populations. This book asks why sustainable development continues to be such a powerful and influential idea in the region, and what impact it has had on various political and economic interests and geographic areas. In other words, as Eve Z. Bratman argues, sustainable development is a political practice in itself. This book offers detailed case study analysis, including of the creation of vast conservation corridors, the construction of one of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world, and new forms of land settlement projects. Based on a decade of Bratman's ethnographic fieldwork throughout Brazil, and particularly along the Trans-Amazonian Highway, Governing the Rainforest offers a fresh take on sustainable development within a multi-level analysis of actors, discourses, and practices.

Environment and Citizenship

Author : Benito Cao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136191011
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Environment and Citizenship written by Benito Cao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing awareness of the human impact on the environment is having a profound effect on the concept and content of citizenship – one of the fundamental institutions that structures human relations. In what is the first introduction of its kind, this book provides an accessible, stimulating and multidimensional overview of the many ways in which concern for the environment – driven primarily by the preoccupation with sustainability – is reshaping our understanding of citizenship. Environment and Citizenship is structured into three parts. Part I introduces the reader to the concept and theories of citizenship and explores the impact that environmental concerns is having on contemporary formulations of citizenship, both traditional (e.g. national, liberal and republican) and emerging (e.g. cosmopolitan, ecological and ecofeminist). Part II explores the practical manifestations of environmental citizenship, with each chapter focusing on a particular actor: citizens, governments, and corporations. These chapters include references to examples and case studies from a wide range of countries, broadly categorized as belonging to the Global North and the Global South. Part III explores the making of green citizens and outlines the dominant articulations of environmental citizenship that emerge from formal education, news media and popular culture. The book concludes with a general reflection on the present and future of environmental citizenship. The book contains a variety of illustrations, boxed case-studies, links to online resources and suggestions for further reading. This original and engaging text is essential reading for students and scholars of environmental politics, sustainability studies and development studies, as well as for environmental activists, policy practitioners and environmental educators. More broadly, this book will appeal to anyone interested in and concerned with issues of sustainability, social justice and citizenship in the twenty-first century.

Brazil in the Anthropocene

Author : Liz-Rejane Issberner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134844220
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Brazil in the Anthropocene written by Liz-Rejane Issberner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Brazil's position in the global ecological crisis and how social, political, ethical, scientific and economic issues affect its environmental performance.

Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development

Author : Luiz C. Barbosa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317577647
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development written by Luiz C. Barbosa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development. This book focuses on the contributions of environmental organizations to the preservation of Brazilian Amazonia. It reveals how environmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, WWF and others have fought fiercely to stop deforestation in the region. It documents how the history of frontier expansion and environmental struggle in the region is linked to Brazil’s position in an evolving capitalist world-economy. It is shown how Brazil’s effort to become a developed country has led successive Brazilian governments to devise development projects for Amazonia. The author analyses how globalization has led to the expansion of international commodity chains in the region, particularly for mineral ores, soybeans and beef. He shows how environmental organizations have politicized these commodity chains as weapons of conservation, through boycotting certain products, while other pro-development groups within Brazil claim that such organizations threaten Brazil's sovereignty over its own resources.

Collective Action and Political Transformations

Author : Aurea Mota
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474442986
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Collective Action and Political Transformations written by Aurea Mota and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book acknowledges the severe problems with effective and significant collective action, but arrives at a more optimistic diagnosis of our time by rethinking the political from the angle of the experiences with progressive and conservative collective action in different parts of the globe: Brazil, South Africa and Europe. By doing so, it contributes a critical perspective to the debate about the possible impact of parts of the Global South for positive social and political developments worldwide.

Frontiers of Development in the Amazon

Author : Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498594727
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Development in the Amazon written by Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Sociological Abstracts

Author : Leo P. Chall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociological Abstracts written by Leo P. Chall and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains more that 300,000 records covering sociology, social work, and other social sciences. Covers 1963 to the present. Updated six times per year.

Collective Action and Radicalism in Brazil

Author : Michel Duquette
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802039073
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Collective Action and Radicalism in Brazil written by Michel Duquette and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central topic of this book is an examination of three major recent movements within Brazil's civil society: the women's movement, the urban housing movement, and the landless peasant movement.

Sustainable Development in Amazonia

Author : Kei Otsuki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136179623
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Development in Amazonia written by Kei Otsuki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues against the assumption that sustainability and environmental conservation are naturally the common goal and norm for everyone in Amazonia. This is the first book focusing on agency, reflexivity and social development to address sustainable development in the region. It discusses the importance of looking into societal dynamics in order to deal with deforestation and sustainable development policies through the ethnography of an Amazonian settlement named New Paradise. This book demystifies utopian and overtly conservationist views that depict the Amazon rainforest as a troubled paradise. Engaging with social theory of practice with particular focus on emergentist perspectives and Foucault’s analysis of ‘heterotopia’, the author shows that Amazonia is a set of settlement heterotopias in which various local and external initiatives interact to make up real, lived-in places. The settlers’ placemaking continually rearranges power and material relations while the process usually emphasises utopian developmentalist and conservationist policy intervention. This book explores in detail how, as power relations are arranged and governance reshaped, sustainable development and construction of a green society also need to become a goal for the settlers themselves. The book’s insights on the relationship between the sustainable development frameworks used in environmental policy, and ongoing societal development on the ground inform debate both within Amazonia, and in comparable communities worldwide. It also offers institutional pathways to realise new, more engaging, policy intervention for development professionals and policy makers.

Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics

Author : M. Betsill
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230518397
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics written by M. Betsill and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-31 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics provides a state of the art review of the major theoretical approaches and substantive debates of the field. The first section reviews the historical development of international environmental politics as well as the theoretical and methodological approaches used in its study. The following chapters each review the trajectory of a key research area within international environmental politics and elaborate on current approaches and debates. Case studies in each chapter illuminate the main theoretical questions that emerge from the review.

Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics

Author : Peter Kingstone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135280304
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics written by Peter Kingstone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routeldge Handbook of Latin American Politics brings together the leading figures in the study of Latin America to present extensive empirical coverage and a cutting-edge examination of the central areas of inquiry in the region.

Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity

Author : Patrick Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192550551
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity written by Patrick Roberts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with 'nature' and 'wilderness'; battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and urban powers of the modern world. It is rarely publicly understood that the extent of human adaptation to, and alteration of, tropical forest environments extends across archaeological, historical, and anthropological timescales. This book is the first attempt to bring together evidence for the nature of human interactions with tropical forests on a global scale, from the emergence of hominins in the tropical forests of Africa to modern conservation issues. Following a review of the natural history and variability of tropical forest ecosystems, this book takes a tour of human, and human ancestor, occupation and use of tropical forest environments through time. Far from being pristine, primordial ecosystems, this book illustrates how our species has inhabited and modified tropical forests from the earliest stages of its evolution. While agricultural strategies and vast urban networks emerged in tropical forests long prior to the arrival of European colonial powers and later industrialization, this should not be taken as justification for the massive deforestation and biodiversity threats imposed on tropical forest ecosystems in the 21st century. Rather, such a long-term perspective highlights the ongoing challenges of sustainability faced by forager, agricultural, and urban societies in these environments, setting the stage for more integrated approaches to conservation and policy-making, and the protection of millennia of ecological and cultural heritage bound up in these habitats.

The Americas

Author : Pascal O. Girot
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113488043X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Americas written by Pascal O. Girot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Americas offers a wide-ranging and original interpretaion of matters relating to territory, boundaries and societies in the American continent.

Ecological Nostalgias

Author : Olivia Angé
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789208947
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Ecological Nostalgias written by Olivia Angé and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals. In this time of climate change, this book explores how nostalgia for fading ecologies unfolds into the interstitial spaces between the biological, the political and the social, regret and hope, the past, the present and the future.