Before the Flood : The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil /

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Jacob Blanc examines the creation of the Itaipu Dam--the largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world--on the Brazil-Paraguay border during the 1970s and 1980s to explore the long-standing conflicts around land, rights, indigeneity, and identity in rural Brazil.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Blanc, Jacob (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Itaipu (Power plant)
Itaipu (Power plant) > Political aspects.
Widerstand
Wasserwirtschaft
Staudamm
Sozialgeschichte
Interessenkonflikt
Guaraní
Entwicklungsprojekt
Land reform.
Dams.
HISTORY / Latin America / South America
Reforme agraire > Bresil.
Barrages > Bresil.
Land reform > Brazil.
Dams > Brazil.
Paraguay
Itaipu
Brasilien
Brazil.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: History as seen from the countryside
  • Borders, geopolitics, and the forgotten roots of Itaipu
  • The project of the century and the battle for public opinion
  • The double-reality of abertura: rural experiences of dictatorship and democracy
  • Sem Tekohá não há Tekó: Avá-Guarani lands and the construction of indigeneity
  • The last political prisoner: borderland elites and the twilight of military rule
  • "Men without a country": agrarian resettlement and the strategies of frontier colonization
  • Land for those who work it: MASTRO and a new era of agrarian reform in Brazil
  • Conclusion: After the flood.

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