Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks, and Resistances

by Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris (Editor), Rafael R. Ioris (Editor), Sergei V. Shubin (Editor), Gustavo S. Azenha (Contribution by), Fabio de Castro (Contribution by)

Overview

This book examines past legacies, socio-ecological tensions, and political disputes associated with the advance of frontiers in the Amazon region. It includes contributions from scholars in Europe, Latin America, and the United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498594738
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	12/29/2021
Pages:	338
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.57(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris is reader in human geography and director of the graduate program on environment and development in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University. Rafael R. Ioris is associate professor of Latin American history at the University of Denver and affiliated faculty in the Latin American Center at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies. Sergei Shubin is associate professor of human geography at Swansea University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 – 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 PART I - Thinking and Making the Amazon Frontier Chapter 2 - Revisiting Frontier Theory and the Experience of Frontier-Making Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris Chapter 3 - Conservation Frontier: The Creation of Protected Areas in the Brazilian Amazonia Frederico Freitas Chapter 4 - Politics of Floodplain Tenure in the Amazon Fábio de Castro PART II - Questioning the Basis of Progress, Power and Poverty Chapter 5 – 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 Chapter 6 – The Socioenvironmental Contradictions of Contemporary Developmentalism: Urbanization, Food Sovereignty and Sustainable Development in the Amazon Tatiana Schor and Gustavo S. Azenha Chapter 7 – Rethinking Fluid, Complex and Uncertain Poverty in Amazonian Ecosystems in Bolivia and Brazil Sergei Shubin Chapter 8 – Illegal Gold Mining and the Struggle to Save the Amazon in Peru Lynn Holland PART III - Identities, Cultures and Subjectivities Chapter 9 – Hidden Histories: Frontier Situations and Indigenous Agency João Pacheco de Oliveira Chapter 10 – Moving Beyond the Human-Nature Dichotomy: On the Cosmopolitics of the Amazon Maria Fernanda Gebara Chapter 11 – Territorial Conflicts on Brazilian Amazonian Frontiers: A Research and Public Policy Framework Paul E. Little Chapter 12 – Slow Violence and Slow Seeing in Beyond Fordlândia Marcos Colón About the Contributors