Volkswagen in the Amazon

Name: Volkswagen in the Amazon
Author: Antoine Acker

The Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil

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Gebonden, 326 blz. | Engels

Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2017

ISBN13: 9781107197428

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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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ISBN13:9781107197428

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:Gebonden

Aantal pagina's:326

Uitgever:Cambridge University Press

Serie:Global and Internati

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1. Setting the stage: the Amazon as a horizon; 2. The making of a model ranch (1973–1976); 3. Development in the age of scarcity (1976–1983); 4. Out-of-date modernity: forced labor at Cristalino (1983–1986); 5. Cristalino's unhappy ending.

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