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Brazil’S Deferred Highway: Mobility, Development, And Anticipating The State In Amazonia, Jeremy M. Campbell Jan 2012

Brazil’S Deferred Highway: Mobility, Development, And Anticipating The State In Amazonia, Jeremy M. Campbell

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Four decades ago, Brazilian officials plotted designs for colonization and resource extraction in Amazonia; subsequently the region has become a test-lab for successive development regimes. Along the Santarém-Cuiabá Highway (Br-163) in the state of Pará, residents have engaged in a range of licit and illicit activities as official development policy has shifted throughout the years. Despite assertions that living along the unpaved road is tantamount to “being stuck” in place and time, residents move widely throughout the region, using the road, trails, streams, and rivers as thoroughfares. I argue that “being stuck” functions as a discursive label for illegible mobilities …


Review Of Storytelling Globalization: From The Chaco And Beyond, Jeremy M. Campbell Jan 2012

Review Of Storytelling Globalization: From The Chaco And Beyond, Jeremy M. Campbell

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

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