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Sociology in the modern world faces many challenges. This edited volume explores significant themes including inequality, structures of power, conceptions of justice and sustainable futures, forming a critical examination across twenty-five individually authored chapters. This text forms part of SAGE Studies in International Sociology series (SSIS).
Amazonia: Territorial Tensions in Progress
Amazonia: Territorial Tensions in Progress
This essay analyzes the complex and contradictory Amazon sociogeographical dynamics, by highlighting the many existing territorialities there from which different possibilities for the future of the region emanate. The distinct geographic scales involved (local, regional, national and international/global) and tensions/contradictions/conflicts that are being taken up by the social groups are considered. Those that derive from the new phase of regional reconfiguration through infrastructure megaprojects are emphasized.
Introduction: Of power relations and views on Amazon
The Amazon being a region located in a peripheral position within peripheral countries in the modern colonial capitalist world system, it seems out of the question that it has the power to speak about itself. Thus, prevailing ...
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