Blanc Jacob Blanc

Before the Flood (eBook, PDF)

The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil

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Produktbeschreibung

In Before the Flood Jacob Blanc traces the protest movements of rural Brazilians living in the shadow of the Itaipu dam-the largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world. In the 1970s and 1980s, local communities facing displacement took a stand against the military officials overseeing the dam's construction, and in the context of an emerging national fight for democracy, they elevated their struggle for land into a referendum on the dictatorship itself. Unlike the broader campaign against military rule, however, the conflict at Itaipu was premised on issues that long predated the official start of dictatorship: access to land, the defense of rural and indigenous livelihoods, and political rights in the countryside. In their efforts against Itaipu and through conflicts among themselves, title-owning farmers, landless peasants, and the Ava-Guarani Indians articulated a rural-based vision for democracy. Through interviews and archival research-including declassified military documents and the first-ever access to the Itaipu Binational Corporation-Before the Flood challenges the primacy of urban-focused narratives and unearths the rural experiences of dictatorship and democracy in Brazil.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478005322
• Artikelnr.: 66282509

Autorenporträt

Jacob Blanc is Lecturer in Latin American History at the University of Edinburgh and coeditor of Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations ix
Note on Terminology and Orthography  xi
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. History as Seen from the Countryside  1
1. Borders, Geopolitics, and the Forgotten Roots of Itaipu  20
2. The Project of the Century and the Battle for Public Opinion  53
3. The Double Reality of Abertura: Rural Experiences of Dictatorship and
Democracy  82
4. Sem Tekoha não há Tekó: Avá Guarani Lands and the Construction of
Indigeneity  125
5. The Last Political Prisoner: Borderland Elites and the Twilight of
Military Rule  154
6. "Men without a Country": Agrarian Resettlement and the Strategies of
Frontier Colonization  170
7. Land for Those Who Work It: Mastro and a New Era of Agrarian Reform in
Brazil  197
Conclusion. After the Flood  228
Notes  235
Bibliography  277
Index  291