{"product_id":"frontiers-of-development-in-the-amazon-9781498594738","title":"Frontiers of Development in the Amazon","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrontiers 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 intensiveat times viol\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 – What is New in the Amazon and What is Amazonian in the New? The 21st Century Brand-Old Frontiers of Exploitation and Development \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris and Rafael R. Ioris \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I - Thinking and Making the Amazon Frontier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 - Revisiting Frontier Theory and the Experience of Frontier-Making \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 - Conservation Frontier: The Creation of Protected Areas in the Brazilian Amazonia \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrederico Freitas \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 - Politics of Floodplain Tenure in the Amazon \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFábio de Castro \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART II - Questioning the Basis of Progress, Power and Poverty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 – What is New in Agribusiness in Brazil? The Long Path of Conservative Modernization in the Perpetual Country-of-the-Future\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRafael R. Ioris and Aaron Schneider\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 – The Socioenvironmental Contradictions of Contemporary Developmentalism: Urbanization, Food Sovereignty and Sustainable Development in the Amazon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTatiana Schor and Gustavo S. Azenha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 – Rethinking Fluid, Complex and Uncertain Poverty in Amazonian Ecosystems in Bolivia and Brazil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSergei Shubin \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8 – Illegal Gold Mining and the Struggle to Save the Amazon in Peru\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLynn Holland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART III - Identities, Cultures and Subjectivities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9 – Hidden Histories: Frontier Situations and Indigenous Agency\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoão Pacheco de Oliveira \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10 – Moving Beyond the Human-Nature Dichotomy: On the Cosmopolitics of the Amazon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaria Fernanda Gebara \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11 – Territorial Conflicts on Brazilian Amazonian Frontiers: A Research and Public Policy Framework\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul E. Little\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12 – Slow Violence and Slow Seeing in Beyond Fordlândia \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarcos Colón\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040868172119,"sku":"9781498594738","price":34.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498594738.jpg?v=1750948121","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/frontiers-of-development-in-the-amazon-9781498594738","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}