Amazonian Geographies : Emerging Identities and Landscapes

ISBN-13: 9780415600538 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 240 str.

Jacqueline M. Vadjunec;Marianne Schmink;¬Abar

Opis

Amazonia is a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares multiple (trans)national borders and diverse ecological and cultural landscapes. This text explores the diversity of changing identities and cultural landscapes emerging in different corners of this rapidly changing region. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Geography.

Spis treści

1. New Amazonian Geographies: Emerging Identities and Landscapes Jacqueline M. Vadjunec, Marianne Schmink and Alyson L. Greiner  2. Waiwai Fractality and the Arboreal Bias of PES Schemes in Guyana: What to Make of the Multiplicity of Amazonian Cosmographies? Laura H. Mentore  3. Redefining Identities, Redefining Landscapes: Indigenous Identity and Land Rights Struggles in the Brazilian Amazon Omaira Bolaños  4. Rubber Tapper Citizens: Emerging Places, Policies, and Shifting Rural-Urban Identities in Acre, Brazil Jacqueline M. Vadjunec, Marianne Schmink and Carlos Valério A. Gomes  5. Amazonian Agriculturalists bound by Subsistence Hunting Eric Minzenberg and Richard Wallace  6. Traditional Communities in the Brazilian Amazon and the Emergence Of New Political Identities: The Struggle Of The Quebradeiras De Coco Babaçu – Babassu Breaker Women Noemi Porro, Iran Veiga and Dalva Mota  7. Transboundary Political Ecology in Amazonia: History, Culture, And Conflicts of the Borderland Asháninka David S. Salisbury, José Borgo López and Jorge W. Vela Alvarado  8. Beyond Postdevelopment: Civic Responses to Regional Integration in the Amazon Sonja K. Pieck  9. The New Amazon Geographies: Insurgent Citizenship, ‘‘Amazon Nation’’ and the Politics of Environmentalisms Susanna B. Hecht

O autorze

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 shewas Director of the Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) program.