Return from the World: Economic Growth and Reverse Migration in Brazil
Autor Gregory Duff Mortonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 iul 2024
In Return from the World, anthropologist Gregory Duff Morton traces the migrations of Brazilian workers who leave a thriving labor market and return to their home villages to become peasant farmers. Morton seeks to understand what it means to turn one’s back deliberately on the promise of economic growth.
Giving up their positions in factories, at construction sites, and as domestic workers, these migrants travel thousands of miles back to villages without running water or dependable power. There, many take up subsistence farming. Some become activists with the MST, Brazil’s militant movement of landless peasants. Bringing their stories vividly to life, Morton dives into the dreams and disputes at play in finding freedom in the shared rejection of growth.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226832920
ISBN-10: 0226832929
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 28 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226832929
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 28 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Gregory Duff Morton is assistant professor at City College of New York, where he teaches anthropology and Latin American studies. This is his first book.
Cuprins
Introduction
1. The Phone Call Home: Forms of Speech in the Growth Process
2. The Roads: Histories of Growth as Histories of Cooperation
3. The Bus Ride: Making and Unmaking Abstract Labor
4. The Cargo: Marketplaces, Labor at a Distance, and Distance from Labor
5. The Money: Asset Chains, Class Consciousness, and the Transfer of Value Out of the City
6. The Things You Hold: Against Saving
Conclusion: Wait for the Coffee
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
1. The Phone Call Home: Forms of Speech in the Growth Process
2. The Roads: Histories of Growth as Histories of Cooperation
3. The Bus Ride: Making and Unmaking Abstract Labor
4. The Cargo: Marketplaces, Labor at a Distance, and Distance from Labor
5. The Money: Asset Chains, Class Consciousness, and the Transfer of Value Out of the City
6. The Things You Hold: Against Saving
Conclusion: Wait for the Coffee
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
Recenzii
"Morton’s findings are original and important. . . . Highly recommended."
“The book is thought-provoking in its description of this stream against the flow of urban to rural migration and its analysis of why people leave the city and return home.”
“This book will become a landmark ethnography of contemporary Brazil as a compelling story of counterdevelopment. It tells how migratory patterns to the city are also the mark of return migration to a MST-influenced region where a conscious peasant lifestyle is chosen as an act of resistance and asserted with decisive forcefulness.”
“Return from the World is firmly rooted in well-composed ethnography, with beautiful writing and bold argumentation. Through the lives and stories of working-class Brazilians, Morton provides a highly original and thoughtful analysis of the meanings of growth, which will make a very important contribution to Latin American anthropology and social theory.”