Volkswagen in the Amazon - The Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The first history of the German multinational's resounding failure in its global development project of a cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Out-of-date modernity: forced labor at Cristalino (1983-1986); 5.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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Antoine Acker, Antoine (Universit... Degli Studi DI Torino Acker
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107197428
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19742-8
• Pagine: 326
• Serie: Global and International History; Global and International Histo; Global and International History; Global and International Histo
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Management; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Brazil, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History of the Americas, c 1970 to c 1979, Development Studies, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989