Frontiers of development in the Amazon : riches, risks, and resistances / edited by Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris, Rafael R. Ioris, and Sergei V. Shubin.

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 f...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Historical and Cultural Trajectory of Agricultural Frontiers and the Subjectivities of Regional Development in the Amazon
Other Authors: Ioris, Antonio Augusto Rossotto (Editor)
Ioris, Rafael R. (Editor)
Shubin, Sergei V. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2020]
Subjects:
Economic development > Amazon River Region.
Amazon River Region > Economic conditions.
Amazon River Region > Environmental conditions.
Ecology.
Economic development.
Economic history.
Amazon River Region.
Physical Description:ix, 328 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • What is New in the Amazon and What is Amazonian in the New? The 21st Century Brand-Old Frontiers of Exploitation and Development / Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris and Rafael R. Ioris
  • Revisiting Frontier Theory and the Experience of Frontier-Making / Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
  • Conservation Frontier: The Creation of Protected Areas in the Brazilian Amazonia / Frederico Freitas
  • Politics of Floodplain Tenure in the Amazon / Fábio de Castro
  • What is New in Agribusiness in Brazil? The Long Path of Conservative Modernization in the Perpetual Country-of-the-Future / Rafael R. Ioris and Aaron Schneider
  • The Socioenvironmental Contradictions of Contemporary Developmentalism: Urbanization, Food Sovereignty and Sustainable Development in the Amazon / Tatiana Schor and Gustavo S. Azenha
  • Rethinking Fluid, Complex and Uncertain Poverty in Amazonian Ecosystems in Bolivia and Brazil / Sergei Shubin
  • Illegal Gold Mining and the Struggle to Save the Amazon in Peru / Lynn Holland
  • Hidden Histories: Frontier Situations and Indigenous Agency / João Pacheco de Oliveira
  • Moving Beyond the Human-Nature Dichotomy: On the Cosmopolitics of the Amazon / Maria Fernanda Gebara
  • Territorial Conflicts on Brazilian Amazonian Frontiers: A Research and Public Policy Framework / Paul E. Little
  • Slow Violence and Slow Seeing in Beyond Fordlândia / Marcos Colón.