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Series: e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Published: 15 March 2013
DOI: 10.1215/9780822397571-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9757-1
Published: 29 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7455-8
... abolition post-emancipation rural labor plantation daily life sugar plantations ...
Published: 29 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7455-8
... abolition post-emancipation social tension freedom citizenship Recôncavo Maracangalha Bahia rural labor land conflicts ...
Book Chapter

By Arjun Shankar
... corruption urban/rural racialization funds of knowledge labor NGO mobility ...
Published: 29 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7455-8
... post-emancipation trajectories family memory survival Recôncavo sugar plantations rural community rural and urban labor migration ...
Published: 05 February 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374619-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7461-9
... This chapter takes up the narrativization of labor, as a form of the reorganization and transformation of rural society. How does labor—in its many rural forms—become the standard against which all social and village activity is measured? The collectization of labor under rural cooperatives...
Published: 29 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7455-8
... post-emancipation family community orality and freedom Recôncavo sugar plantations rural and urban labor migration ...
Series: Global Insecurities
Published: 29 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374718-017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7471-8
... Rural dispossession provoked by neoliberalism leads to increasing urban migration from the Bolivian highlands. The Cancha grows as the informal economy absorbs surplus labor from the countryside. urbanization labor neoliberalism ...
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374558-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7455-8
... alternatives to working in the sugarcane fields and to affirm their right of access to and use of the resources on the properties where they had been enslaved. abolition post-emancipation social tension freedom citizenship Recôncavo Maracangalha Bahia rural labor land conflicts ...
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374558-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7455-8
... contracts with his former slaves after abolition. abolition post-emancipation rural labor plantation daily life sugar plantations ...
Published: 30 June 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027119-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2711-9
... of their labor. corruption urban/rural racialization funds of knowledge labor NGO mobility ...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-064
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... to take charge of the agricultural labor code and promote the unionization of rural workers, del Granado asserts, it would be following a ruinous Soviet model. ...
Book Chapter

By Nikhil Anand
Published: 17 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373599-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7359-9
... technology and labor but also through discourses of water scarcity that frequently appear in the city’s newspapers. I demonstrate how the loud, relentless discourses of water scarcity hide the city’s underground water resources. These discourses also unmake the lives rural residents when their waters...
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374558-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7455-8
... labor migration ...
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373353-012
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7335-3
...-in-democracy” means a movement from within which people can participate in institutions and institutional practices—elections, government agencies and commissions, labor union confederations, participatory budgeting—and also mobilize, protest, disrupt, and create new programs and practices outside of formal...
Published: 08 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027560-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2756-0
..., and the inculcation of good habits and hygiene. By 1920, Bolivia's official pedagogy for the Indian had settled on a contradictory logic of racial assimilation and labor subjugation: Indian youth would be trained in farm-schools that would civilize them and train them as efficient farmhands. This geo-racial logic...
Published: 25 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060079-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6007-9
... uncertain land rights or measure deforestation on specific pieces of land. Instead, they attached forest carbon’s new value to labor and ecosystem services. Examining subsequent redistribution as a form of statecraft, the chapter argues that this approach engendered an environmentally premised welfare state...
Published: 26 February 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374701-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7470-1
... This chapter examines the creation of Barrancabermeja as a foreign-dominated, oil export enclave over the first half of the twentieth century. It analyzes how contests over the command of space, the control of labor, and the accumulation of capital shaped relationships between a foreign oil...
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374558-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7455-8
... survival Recôncavo sugar plantations rural community rural and urban labor migration ...
Book Chapter

By Arjun Shankar
... told will allow them some form of upward mobility. For many fieldworkers, the end result is simply a doubling and tripling of their labor. corruption urban/rural racialization funds of knowledge labor NGO mobility In chapter ten, Shankar explores questions of primitive accumulation...