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- Analyzes the political background behind the implementation of modernization policies in the Amazon, starting in the 1970´s
- Studies the gap in the territorial management of Barcarena in the Pará Amazon and the concentration of wealth in the city
- Analyzes local usage of global standards, as it shows how the Fiscal Responsibility Law as a global standard is being used as a tool for conservative political action
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies (BRIEFSLAS)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book offers an analysis of the territory of Barcarena, in the Brazilian Amazon. The author studies the land use and the implemented modernization policies that made it one of the richest cities of the state.
The political system uses this territory as a resource to provide for the needs of a small circle of social agents. A system of conservative political actions enforces the process of modernization of the Baracena territory. Innovations in the Barcarena territory, such as the implementation of the aluminium factory Albras/Alunorte and the territorial configuration or public administration, lead to modernization simulations and artificial devices. The intended effect however is more about appearing to be modern, than actual modernization. The territorial use of Barcarena is aimed to protect the interests and privileges of the elite.
Keywords
- Territorial Configuration
- Territorial Management
- Modernization of the Amazon
- Brazilian Amazon Land Use
- Terriorial use of Baracena
- Natural Resoruces
- Fiscal Responsibility Law
- Concentration of Wealth
- Modernization Policies
- Environmental Geography
- natural resources and energy economics
- latin american politics
Authors and Affiliations
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Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Belem, Brazil
João Santos Nahum
About the author
He graduated in Geography (1992) and Social Sciences (1995) from the Universidade Federal do Pará in Brazil. He specialized in State and Border (1996) and received his Masters title in Planning and Development Studies at the heart of the Amazon(2000). After a specialization in Geography and Environmental Planning at PUC-MG and Unesp-Rio, João Santos Nahum obtained a Geography doctorate in Spatial Organization (2006).
In 2008 prof. João Santos Nahum joined the Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences) as a professor in Geography and Carthography in the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia da UFPA (Graduate Program of Geography of the UFPA).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modernization and Political Actions in the Brazilian Amazon
Book Subtitle: The City of Barcarena, Pará
Authors: João Santos Nahum
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58030-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58029-6Published: 19 May 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58030-2Published: 08 May 2017
Series ISSN: 2366-763X
Series E-ISSN: 2366-7648
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 78
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Geography, Environmental Geography, Natural Resources, Human Geography, Sustainable Development, Latin American Politics