Amazonian geographies : emerging identities and landscapes

Amazonian geographies : emerging identities and landscapes / edited by Jacqueline M. Vadjunec and Marianne Schmink.

"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 teemi...

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Other Authors: Vadjunec, Jacqueline M. (Jacqueline Michelle), 1974-, Schmink, Marianne
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
Edition:First paperback edition
Subjects:
Ethnic groups > Amazon River Region.
Human geography > Amazon River Region.
Indigenous peoples > Ecology > Amazon River Region.
Cultural landscapes > Amazon River Region.
Landscapes > Amazon River Region.
Social evolution.
Amazon River Region.
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Bolanos
  • 4. Rubber tapper citizens : emerging places, policies, and shifting rural-urban identities in Acre, Brazil / Jacqueline M. Vadjunec, Marianne Schmink and Carlos Valerio 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 babacu : babassu breaker women / Noemi Porro, Iran Veiga and Dalva Mota
  • 7. Transboundary political ecology in Amazonia : history, culture, and conflicts of the borderland Ashaninka / David S. Salisbury, Jose Borgo Lopez 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.

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