7. Development and Dispossession in São Félix do Xingu

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: A Forest Mirage 1
5. Extraction. Plundering the Periphery in Indonesian Borneo
6. Overview: Extractive Regimes 31
7. 1. Four Hundred Years of Extraction 38
8. 2. Deforesting the “Green Province” 53
9. 3. Losing the Forest, Sparing the Trees 68
10. Reflection: Green at Last? 82
11. Production. A Modernist Transition in the Brazilian Amazon
12. Overview: An Amazonian Success Story 93
13. 4. The Amazonian Extractive Economy 97
14. 5. The Logic of Brazilian Land Sparing 109
15. 6. Greening the Soy Complex in Nova Ubiratã 121
16. 7. Development and Dispossession in São Félix do Xingu 145
17. Reflection: A Day of Fire 161
18. Displacement. “Brasileros” on the Bolivian Frontier
19. Overview: The Vortex of Development 171
20. 8. “The Country Jumps the Fence” 178
21. 9. San Ignacio de Velasco: From the Lost World to the Zebu Capital 184
22. Reflection: Feedbacks and False Solutions 208
23. Epilogue: Alibis of Ecocide 213
24. Appendix: Deforestation Rates in Indonesia, Brazil, and Bolivia 225
25. Notes 235
26. Index 283