Fevers, movements, passions and dead cities in northern Goiás

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ID2494442
AutoresA D Guedes (0000-0003-0990-3188, Centro de Investigación Docencia y Consultoria Administrativa, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen11
Número1
Páginas56-95
Fecha de publicación2014-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
EditorialAssociação Brasileira de Antropologia (PUBLISHER • BR)
DOI10.1590/s1809-43412014000100003
OpenAlexW2003868250
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412014000100003
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas23

In this paper I show how people living in a small town in the Brazilian state of Goiás describe the 'economic' processes that have been shaping and transforming their lives over recent decades: the gold fever in the 1980's, the construction of three large hydroelectric plants and the complex relation between this city and the mining company that 'created' it. In so doing, I focus on the ideas of movement, passion and fever, looking to demonstrate how such categories relate these processes to other experiences and domains. In pursuing this aim, I also look to establish a counterpoint to the ways through which issues such as the social effects of large development projects or the modernization of 'traditional' areas have usually been described in the social sciences

Counterpoint · Epistemology · Hydroelectricity · Modernization theory · Passion · Passions · Political science · Sociology · Engineering · Law · Psychology · Social and Economic Solidarity · Social Psychology · Urban and sociocultural dynamics · Urban Development and Societal Issues

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