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Rural Transformations
This book focuses on the transformation of rural places, peoples, and land endemic to the contemporary manifestations of globalization. Migration, global economic restructuring, and climate change are rapidly transforming rural places across the globe. Yet, global attention characteristically focuses on urban social and economic issues, neglecting the continued roles of rural people and places. Organized around the three core themes of demographic change, rural-urban partnerships and innovations, and landscape change, the case studies included in this volume represent both the Global North and Global South and underscore the complexity and multi-scalar nature of these contemporary challenges in rural development, planning, and sustainability. This book would be valuable supplementary reading for both students and professionals in the fields of rural land management and rural planning.
Unequal Development and Labour in Brazil
This book is about unequal development and labour in Brazil, with particular reference to the economic and social development of the Northeast region, which has suffered persistent disadvantage. It combines a historical approach, which shows how economic, social and political institutions have been restructured over time, with an analysis of changes in the pattern of production, employment, unemployment and inequality up to the present day. It draws on detailed case studies to examine the connections between local and national production systems and critical labour market outcomes such as informality in employment, precarious work and disparities between genders, races and regions. The case ...
Sports Mega-Events and Urban Legacies
This book examines the urban legacy of the 2014 football World Cup in Brazil across the seven cities that hosted matches. The authors, all experts and natives of South America, analyse the context and impacts of hosting the World Cup for each of the host cities. The chapters use a range of background data and local knowledge and understanding to critically assess what benefits or disadvantages came along with bidding for and hosting World Cup final games, and importantly considers who the beneficiaries where and are. It further provides detailed empirical evidence that highlights a growing trend in sporting mega events: the overestimation of benefits and an underestimation of costs involved in hosting. The book adds to the critical literature that provides a counterweight to governments' aspirations to use mega events for the purposes of development and/or globalization, irrespective of the views of their citizens.
Space Production by Migrants in China's Urban Villages
As China races towards modernity, its cities are experiencing an unprecedented surge in urbanisation, characterised by a relentless influx of migrants and sprawling expansion into suburban realms. Shiyu Yang draws upon Henri Lefebvre's influential theoretical framework and applies it to case studies of two urban villages in Beijing to examine how migrants shape the social production of space in these districts. With a wealth of first-hand material from the field, this study provides essential insights into the ongoing processes and social dynamics that resonate with scholars from cross-disciplinary urban studies as well as practitioners in governance and urban planning.
A Historia Da Minha Vida
Este livro, com muitas fotos, que comemora meus oitenta anos, é pra ler e também pra ver. Vamos falar da vida e da morte e também de tudo que aparece pelo meio. Viver é seguir pelos caminhos, estradas, veredas que se abrem a nossa frente. Temos que seguir por cima de pau e pedra; nos leitos secos ou cheios dos riachos. Nada deve ser motivo para esbarrar, se amofinar, desistir com medo do que possa acontecer. Mesmo porque o que tem significado na vida de um homem é defender com o seu trabalho, sua honra os seus direitos enquanto vida tiver. Este livro fala do passado e do presente. O futuro a Deus pertence!
A Future History of Water
Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water traces the unspectacular work necessary to make water access a human right and a human right something different from a commodity. Andrea Ballestero shows how these ephemeral distinctions are made through four technolegal devices—formula, index, list and pact. She argues that what is at stake in these devices is not the making of a distinct future but what counts as the future in the first place. A Future History of Water is an ethnographically rich and conceptually charged journey into ant-filled water meters, fantastical water taxonomies, promises captured on slips of paper, and statistical maneuvers that dissolve the human of human rights. Ultimately, Ballestero demonstrates what happens when instead of trying to fix its meaning, we make water’s changing form the precondition of our analyses.
Mundo Pequeño
Carlos, Kaori y Catherine son tres adolescentes que inician su año de intercambio por medio de Rotary en Estados Unidos, México y Finlandia donde tienen que aprender a hablar el idioma para comunicarse. Carlos conoce estudiantes en otros programas como American Field Service y Education First que terminan siendo sus mejores amigos. Kaori, procedente de Japón tiene que sobrellevar el choque cultural en México y Catherine debe aprender algo de finlandés para sobrevivir en la escuela. Muchas veces los tres se preguntan ¿cómo me va a ayudar este año? ¿cómo serán mis siguientes hogares? ¿qué debo esperar del Intercambio? ¿cómo será cuando regrese a casa? Mundo Pequeño, es una novela que pretende ser una guía para todo aquél que desée ser o sea estudiante de intercambio en cualquier parte del mundo.
A Monopolização da Renda da Terra e os Conflitos Agrários na Fronteira Agrícola do MATOPIBA
A MONOPOLIZAÇÃO DA RENDA DA TERRA E OS CONFLITOS AGRÁRIOS NA FRONTEIRA AGRÍCOLA DO MATOPIBA Convido aos que desejam conhecer os aspectos da produção do espaço na fronteira agropecuária do MATOPIBA a ler o livro "A Monopolização da Renda da Terra e os Conflitos Agrários na Fronteira Agrícola do MATOPIBA", de José Novais de Jesus. O autor, envolvido com as dores e as angústias do povo do campo, percorre os projetos, as estratégias geopolíticas dos agentes do capital, do Estado, que se territorializam nesse novo front agropecuário. A produção do espaço estandardizado, homogêneo, a geografia do agronegócio se contrapõe à geografia do campesinato, das comunidades quilombol...
