Antoine Acker

Volkswagen in the Amazon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies the interplay between deforestation, forced labor, and capitalist development in the Amazon through a case study involving Volkswagen in the years of the Brazilian military dictatorship. Focused on both international and local connections, it shows how an agenda for tropical rainforests emerged through economic globalization.

Produktdetails

• Global and International History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9781107197428
• ISBN-10: 1107197422
• Artikelnr.: 49210794

Autorenporträt

Antoine Acker earned his Ph.D. at the European University Institute, Florence and has extensively researched and taught in seven different countries on a broad range of topics including environmental and Brazilian history, German culture and language, as well as political sciences. He was a lecturer at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (2013-2014), at the Université de La Rochelle, France (2014-2015) and a guest scholar at Universität Bielefeld, Germany, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands and Universität Bern, Switzerland (2015-2016). He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy in affiliation with the Marie Curie Excellence Fellowships program co-funded by the European Commission.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Out
of
date modernity: forced labor at Cristalino (1983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.