Author : Malika Hollander
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780778793380
Text and photographs portray Brazil's geography and climate, city and rural life, industry, and transportation, focusing especially on the Amazon and the people and animals that live on the river.
Author : Wendy Wolford
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 2010-01-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This on-the-ground account of a celebrated Brazilian agrarian movement highlights the contingent nature of social movements and political identities more broadly.
Author : Gabriel A. Ondetti
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271033532
"Analyzes the development of the movement for agrarian reform in Brazil, and attempts to explain the major moments of change in its growth trajectory, from the late 1970s to 2006"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Merle L. Bowen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1108936156
For Land and Liberty is a comparative study of the history and contemporary circumstances concerning Brazil's quilombos (African-descent rural communities) and their inhabitants, the quilombolas. The book examines the disposition of quilombola claims to land as a site of contestation over citizenship and its meanings for Afro-descendants, as well as their connections to the broader fight against racism. Contrary to the narrative that quilombola identity is a recent invention, constructed for the purpose of qualifying for opportunities made possible by the 1988 law, Bowen argues that quilombola claims are historically and locally rooted. She examines the ways in which state actors have colluded with large landholders and modernization schemes to appropriate quilombo land, and further argues that, even when granted land titles, quilombolas face challenges issuing from systemic racism. By analyzing the quilombo movement and local initiatives, this book offers fresh perspectives on the resurgence of movements, mobilization, and resistance in Brazil.
Author : Stefan Zweig
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 2018-10-14
Category :
ISBN : 9780343132743
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Author : Georg Wink
Publisher : Bibliotopía
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 6079934817
Brazil, Land of the Past scrutinizes the ideological roots of the so-called New Right in Brazil. The book traces the continuity and resilience of a system of thought based on the idea of a God-given hierarchical order to be defended against any social contract and modernizing relativization. It explains in detail how today a diverse movement — which includes actors ranging from the authoritarian Bolsonaro wing to economic liberals to the military to both Catholic and evangelical religious conservatives – assumes unanimously the ideas of this tradition as underlying premises of their political action. Though not always explicitly, this drives the self-declared “liberal-conservative” but rather anti-modernist reaction which claims to liberate an imaginary authentic “Brazil” from an aberrant “State” – and in so doing intends to preserve inherited privilege in an extremely unequal society.
Author : Vinod Thomas
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821364561
Brazil faces important issues as to whether and how socio-economic and political reforms will be pursued with urgency and staying power. This book presents a strong agenda and action plan to achieve for Brazil both economic growth and improved welfare for its citizens.
Author : Jeremy M. Campbell
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0295806192
Winner of the 2017 James M. Blaut Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers Honorable Mention for the 2016 Book Prize from the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Since the 1960s, when Brazil first encouraged large-scale Amazonian colonization, violence and confusion have often accompanied national policies concerning land reform, corporate colonization, indigenous land rights, environmental protection, and private homesteading. Conjuring Property shows how, in a region that many perceive to be stateless, colonists - from highly capitalized ranchers to landless workers - adopt anticipatory stances while they await future governance intervention regarding land tenure. For Amazonian colonists, property is a dynamic category that becomes salient in the making: it is conjured through papers, appeals to state officials, and the manipulation of landscapes and memories of occupation. This timely study will be of interest to development studies scholars and practitioners, conservation ecologists, geographers, and anthropologists.
Author : Keisha-Khan Y. Perry
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2013
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780816683246
Focusing on the Gamboa de Baixo neighborhood in Salvador, Brazil's city center, Black Women against the Land Grab explores how black women's views on development have radicalized local communities to demand justice and social change. Keisha-Khan Y. Perry describes the key role of local women activists in the citywide movement for land and housing rights.
Author : Bianca Carvalho Vieira
Publisher : Springer
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 34,50 MB
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401780234
This book presents Brazil as a country of continental dimensions. Its territory has a large variety of rock types, geological structures and climates. The country has a large variety of landscapes, such as the humid plains of the Amazon River, the dry plateaus of the semi-arid region or the subtropical mountains of the southern region. On the coast, some plateaus and mountains, like the Serra do Mar Mountain range, formed a significant barrier front to access the hinterland of Brazil. On the other side of these coastal plateaus and mountains, there is a large collection of other plateaus, mountains, plains and depressions little altered by human interference. Thus, Brazil has a unique variety of different landscapes and extraordinary geomorphological sites. The book invites readers to learn more about the beautiful Brazilian landscapes, their complexity and vastness.
