Before the flood
Subtitle: the Itaipu Dam and the visibility of rural Brazil
By: Jacob Blanc
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Durham; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781478004295; 9781478004899; 9781478005322
Subjects: Dams; Land reform; Itaipu (Power plant); Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: History as seen from the countryside; title: Borders, geopolitics, and the forgotten roots of Itaipu; title: The project of the century and the battle for public opinion; title: The double-reality of abertura: rural experiences of dictatorship and democracy; title: Sem Tekohá não há Tekó: Ava -Guarani lands and the construction of indigeneity; title: The last political prisoner: borderland elites and the twilight of military rule; title: Men-kim: if it seems appropriate based on the chapter contents, please suggest a gender-; title: Neutral alternative (or at least ask the author to consider changing it). Thanks! CS without a country: agrarian resettlement and the strategies of frontier colonization; title: Land for those who work it: MASTRO and a new era of agrarian reform in Brazil; title: Conclusion: After the flood.