Academic Journal
The Forest and the Factory: Debt, Development, and Community in the Amazon Delta
| العنوان: | The Forest and the Factory: Debt, Development, and Community in the Amazon Delta |
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| المؤلفون: | Abel, Matthew |
| المصدر: | Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations |
| بيانات النشر: | Washington University Open Scholarship |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | Washington University St. Louis: Open Scholarship |
| الوصف: | This dissertation examines how smallholder farmers, fishers, and agroforesters in Brazil’s Amazon delta succeeded in carving out a position of relative autonomy and social security along an emerging industrial corridor for agricultural and mineral commodities in the eastern Amazonian state of Pará. Drawing on seventeen months of ethnographic fieldwork and research at public and private archives, I demonstrate how contemporary social and environmental justice coalitions in the Amazon have been shaped by the sociological legacy of the aviamento: a system of debt peonage and unequal exchange that structured the relationship between rural workers and merchant elites throughout much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In forwarding a series of arguments regarding the drivers of social and ecological change in the Amazon delta, I suggest that dominant portrayals of the rainforest as either a pristine natural environment or repository of cultural otherness all too often obscure the basin’s centrality as a site of social conflict, labor struggle, and political change, contributing to the persistent invisibility of the region’s rural workers and their contributions to global history. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English unknown |
| Relation: | https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds/3118; https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/context/art_sci_etds/article/4425/viewcontent/1009012.pdf |
| DOI: | 10.7936/n9cz-xb49 |
| الاتاحة: | https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds/3118 https://doi.org/10.7936/n9cz-xb49 https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/context/art_sci_etds/article/4425/viewcontent/1009012.pdf |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.6F4C4CC6 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.7936/n9cz-xb49 |
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