Antoine Acker
Volkswagen in the Amazon
The Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil
Paperback Engels 2017 9781316647776Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
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Samenvatting
From 1973 to 1987, Volkswagen's (VW) 140,000 hectare 'pioneer' cattle ranch on the Amazon frontier laid bare the limits of capitalist development. These limits were not only economic, with the core management of a multinational company engaged in the 'integration' of an extreme world periphery, but they were also legal and ethical, with the involvement of indentured labor and massive forest burning. Its physical limits were exposed by an unpredictable ecosystem refusing to submit to VW's technological arsenal. Antoine Acker reveals how the VW ranch, a major project supported by the Brazilian military dictatorship, was planned, negotiated, and eventually undone by the intervention of internationally connected actors and events.
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ISBN13:9781316647776
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:328
Uitgever:Cambridge University Press
Serie:Global and Internati
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Inhoudsopgave
1. Setting the stage: the Amazon as a horizon; 2. The making of a model ranch (1973–1976); 3. Development in the age of scarcity (1976–1983); 4. Out-of-date modernity: forced labor at Cristalino (1983–1986); 5. Cristalino's unhappy ending.
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