It's All About Power
The Political Economy and Ecology of Redefining the Brazilian Amazon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2276925 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul S Ciccantell (0000-0002-1145-6439, Kansas State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 293-315 |
| Publication date | 1999-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1999.tb00549.x |
| PMID | 22416331 |
| OpenAlex | W2041759320 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 34 |
What happens to rural communities in remote raw materials-rich regions when their definitions of the region's natural resources are confronted with competing and incompatible definitions presented and enforced by external actors? The social constructionist approach in environmental sociology provides an essential counterbalance to environmental determinism, but this article argues that in many contexts social construction is actually a process of the imposition of external actors' material interests over the objections of local groups. New historical materialism, via an interdisciplinary and multimethod research strategy, analyzes the changing definitions and uses of the Brazilian Amazon as a revelatory case study of the political economy and ecology of this process and its consequences for nature, rural communities, and indigenous peoples
Amazon rainforest · Determinism · Environmental ethics · Environmental sociology · Epistemology · Historical materialism · Indigenous · Materialism · Political ecology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law
Victims of the miracle
Contested frontiers in Amazonia
The politics of military rule in Brazil, 1964-85
Globalization
The State and the Global City
The Social Creation of Nature
Powers of Theory
Reinterpreting the Amazon Rubber Boom
Introduction to the Journal of World Systems Research
Linked to what? Economic linkages in an extractive economy
Ranching in the Brazilian Amazon in a national context
Staples, links, and poles in the construction of regional development theories
Environment, development and politics
Resource-based industrialization in the developing countries
Social Impact Assessment and Monitoring
The Multinational Corporation
Social Change in Brazil, 1945-1985
Migrants to Amazonia
Beyond the nature/society divide
Myths of Nature
Subcontracting and the Omitted Social Dimensions of Large Development Projects
The Effects of Deforestation in Amazonia
Landscapes
Opportunity-Threat, Development, and Adaptation
The Extended Case Method
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2015 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |