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The first history of the German multinational's resounding failure in its global development project of a cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon.
Table des matières
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 Out-of-date modernity: forced labor at Cristalino (1983-1986); 5.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.
A propos de l'auteur
Antoine Acker earned his Ph.D. at the European University Institute, Florence and has extensively researched and taught in seven different countries on a broad range of topics including environmental and Brazilian history, German culture and language, as well as political sciences. He was a lecturer at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (2013-2014), at the Université de La Rochelle, France (2014-2015) and a guest scholar at Universität Bielefeld, Germany, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands and Universität Bern, Switzerland (2015-2016). He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy in affiliation with the Marie Curie Excellence Fellowships program co-funded by the European Commission.
Résumé
This book studies the interplay between deforestation, forced labor, and capitalist development in the Amazon through a case study involving Volkswagen in the years of the Brazilian military dictatorship. Focused on both international and local connections, it shows how an agenda for tropical rainforests emerged through economic globalization.
