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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés Portugués |
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Tucson :
The University of Arizona Press, www.uapress.arizona.edu,
2022.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
Critical green engagements. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.