Nationalizing Nature - Iguazu Falls and National Parks At the Brazil-Argentina Border

List of contents

Introduction: Boundaries of nature; 1. Nationalizing the border; 2. Playing catch-up; 3. A park and a town; 4. Land conflict; 5. Surveillance and evasion; 6. The view from above; The resilience of boundaries.

About the author

Frederico Freitas is an Assistant Professor of Digital and Latin American History and a core member of the Visual Narrative Initiative at North Carolina State University. He is the co-editor of Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay (with Jacob Blanc, 2018) and a recipient of an NEH fellowship.

Product details

• Authors: Frederico Freitas, Frederico (North Carolina State Universit Freitas, Frederico (North Carolina State University) Freitas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781108844833
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84483-3
• No. of pages: 315
• Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies; Cambridge Latin American Studi
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; NATURE / Natural Resources, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Environmental Management, Conservation of the environment, History of the Americas, Environmentalist thought and ideology