Edited by Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris; Rafael R. Ioris and Sergei V. Shubin - Contributions by Gustavo S. Azenha; Fabio de Castro; Marcos Colón; Frederico Freitas; Maria Fernanda Gebara; Lynn Holland; Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris; Rafael R. Ioris; Pa

Chapter 1 - What is New in the Amazon and What is Amazonian in the New? The 21st Century Brand-Old Frontiers of Exploitation and Development

Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris and Rafael R. Ioris



PART I - Thinking and Making the Amazon Frontier



Chapter 2 - Revisiting Frontier Theory and the Experience of Frontier-Making

Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris

Chapter 3 - Conservation Frontier: The Creation of Protected Areas in the Brazilian Amazonia

Frederico Freitas

Chapter 4 - Politics of Floodplain Tenure in the Amazon

Fábio de Castro



PART II - Questioning the Basis of Progress, Power and Poverty



Chapter 5 - What is New in Agribusiness in Brazil? The Long Path of Conservative Modernization in the Perpetual Country-of-the-Future

Rafael R. Ioris and Aaron Schneider

Chapter 6 - The Socioenvironmental Contradictions of Contemporary Developmentalism: Urbanization, Food Sovereignty and Sustainable Development in the Amazon

Tatiana Schor and Gustavo S. Azenha

Chapter 7 - Rethinking Fluid, Complex and Uncertain Poverty in Amazonian Ecosystems in Bolivia and Brazil

Sergei Shubin

Chapter 8 - Illegal Gold Mining and the Struggle to Save the Amazon in Peru

Lynn Holland



PART III - Identities, Cultures and Subjectivities



Chapter 9 - Hidden Histories: Frontier Situations and Indigenous Agency

João Pacheco de Oliveira

Chapter 10 - Moving Beyond the Human-Nature Dichotomy: On the Cosmopolitics of the Amazon

Maria Fernanda Gebara

Chapter 11 - Territorial Conflicts on Brazilian Amazonian Frontiers: A Research and Public Policy Framework

Paul E. Little

Chapter 12 - Slow Violence and Slow Seeing in Beyond Fordlândia

Marcos Colón



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