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Running after paradise : hope, survival, and activism in Brazil's Atlantic Forest /

"This book looks at social-environmental activism in one of the world's most important and threatened tropical forests-Southern Bahia, Brazil. It explores what it means to be in and of a place through the lenses of history, environment, identity, class, and culture. It uncovers not only wh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scanlan Lyons, Colleen M., 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Portugués
Publicado: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, www.uapress.arizona.edu, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Critical green engagements.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Crafting the stories, and the story, of here
  • A very brief orienting interlude: cultures, politics, and interconnections across difference
  • Narrating environmentalism in a biodiversity hotspot
  • Striving for land and livelihood
  • Overcoming historical silence by finding voice in the present
  • Creating a politics of place
  • Conclusion: Walking with social-environmental activists Epilogue: Fieldwork = Familywork
  • Reflecting on theory and method
  • Glossary of Portuguese terms.