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Return from the World
Economic Growth and Reverse Migration in Brazil
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Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2024
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An anthropologist’s investigation of why some Brazilians choose to leave behind a booming economy and return to their villages.
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.
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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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.
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“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.”
— Enrique Mayer, emeritus, Yale University“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.”
— Sean T. Mitchell, author of "Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil""Morton’s findings are original and important. . . . Highly recommended."
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Frontmatter
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Introduction
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1 The Phone Call Home: Forms of Speech in the Growth Process
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2 The Roads: Histories of Growth as Histories of Cooperation
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3 The Bus Ride: Making and Unmaking Abstract Labor
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4 The Cargo: Marketplaces, Labor at a Distance, and Distance from Labor
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5 The Money: Asset Chains, Class Consciousness, and the Transfer of Value Out of the City
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6 The Things You Hold: Against Saving
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Conclusion: Wait for the Coffee
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Afterword
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Acknowledgments
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Notes
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References
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Index
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10. Juli 2024
eBook ISBN:
9780226832913
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Schlagwörter für dieses Buch
economic growth; reverse migration; MST landless movement; peasant; abstract labor; social class; assets; saving; authoritative discourse
Zielgruppe(n) für dieses Buch
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
