Conjuring Property: Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon

Campbell, Jeremy M.

ISBN 10: 0295995297 / ISBN 13: 9780295995298

Edité par University of Washington Press, 2015

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Synopsis :

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.

À propos des auteurs: Jeremy Campbell is assistant professor of anthropology at Roger Williams University. He received his PhD in anthropology from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2009. This is his first book.

Kalyanakrishnan "Shivi" Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asia Studies, professor of anthropology, professor of forestry and environmental studies, and codirector of the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.

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Titre : Conjuring Property: Speculation and ...
Éditeur : University of Washington Press
Date d'édition : 2015
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good
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