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Amazonian Geographies: Emerging Identities and Landscapes book cover

1st Edition

Amazonian Geographies Emerging Identities and Landscapes

Edited By Jacqueline Vadjunec, Marianne Schmink Copyright 2012
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge
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Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground. It is a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares multiple (trans)national borders and diverse ecological and cultural landscapes. It is often presented as a seemingly homogeneous place: a lush tropical jungle teeming with exotic wildlife and plant diversity, as well as the various indigenous populations that inhabit... Read more

CH1. Introduction. J.M. Vadjunec (OSU) and Marianne Schmink (UF)

CH2. Nature, territory, citizenship, the struggle for and against governance through regional integration in South America. Sonja Pieck (Bates College).

CH3. Cinderella fruits and cultural forests in Amazonia. Nigel Smith (UF).

CH4. Redefining identities, redefining landscapes: Indegenous identity and land rights struggles in the Brazilian Amazon. Omaira Bolanos (UF/ Water Institute).

CH5. Rubber tapper citizens: Emerging institutions, policies, and rural-urban identities in Acre, Brazil. Jacqueline M. Vadjunec (OSU), Marianne Schmink (UF) and Carlos Valerio A. Gomes (Secretario de Estado de Meio Ambiente (SEMA), Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil).

CH6. Amazonian agriculturalists bound by subsistence hunting. Eric Minzenberg (Santa Monica College) and Richard Wallace (CSU-Stanislaus)

CH7. Building social visibility to reaffirm political identities: the struggles of the Babaçu Breaker Women for their traditional territories in the Amazon. Noemi M. Porro, Iran Veiga, Dalva Motta, and Luciene D. Figueiredo (Federal University of Para, Belem, Brazil).

CH8. Transboundary Political Ecology in the Amazon Borderlands. David Salisbury (University of Richmond).

CH9. Conclusion. Sussana Hecht (UCLA).

Biography

Jacqueline M. Vadjunec is an assistant professor of Geography at Oklahoma State University.

Marianne Schmink is Professor of Latin American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Florida, where she was Director of the Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) program.

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