Volkswagen in the Amazon : The Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Global and International History
ISBN-10
1316647773
ISBN-13
9781316647776
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 21st, 2017
Print length
328 Pages
Weight
480 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 22.90 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Development studiesHistory of the AmericasPostwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000
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This book studies the interplay between deforestation, forced labor, and capitalist development in the Amazon through a case study involving Volkswagen in the years of the Brazilian military dictatorship. Focused on both international and local connections, it shows how an agenda for tropical rainforests emerged through economic globalization.
From 1973 to 1987, Volkswagen''s (VW) 140,000 hectare ''pioneer'' cattle ranch on the Amazon frontier laid bare the limits of capitalist development. These limits were not only economic, with the core management of a multinational company engaged in the ''integration'' of an extreme world periphery, but they were also legal and ethical, with the involvement of indentured labor and massive forest burning. Its physical limits were exposed by an unpredictable ecosystem refusing to submit to VW''s technological arsenal. Antoine Acker reveals how the VW ranch, a major project supported by the Brazilian military dictatorship, was planned, negotiated, and eventually undone by the intervention of internationally connected actors and events.
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