“…The loosening up of policies after the fall of many of the military governments in the 1970s and 1980s was followed in the 1990s by the expansion of neoliberal policies favoring large infrastructure projects to support export and trade, such as those described by Pieck (2011). In response to the impacts of such development policies, and due to the growing influence of worker's unions (Keck 1995), liberation theology and the Catholic Church (Freire 1970), along with growing international concerns by environmentalists regarding the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, new social movements formed, pressing for both environmental and social justice throughout Amazonia (Allegretti 1990;Hecht and Cockburn 1990).…”
Section: Carving Out Amazonian Geographies: Contested Spaces and Chanmentioning
“…The loosening up of policies after the fall of many of the military governments in the 1970s and 1980s was followed in the 1990s by the expansion of neoliberal policies favoring large infrastructure projects to support export and trade, such as those described by Pieck (2011). In response to the impacts of such development policies, and due to the growing influence of worker's unions (Keck 1995), liberation theology and the Catholic Church (Freire 1970), along with growing international concerns by environmentalists regarding the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, new social movements formed, pressing for both environmental and social justice throughout Amazonia (Allegretti 1990;Hecht and Cockburn 1990).…”
Section: Carving Out Amazonian Geographies: Contested Spaces and Chanmentioning
“…). Hecht () and Pieck () analyze this gathering strength as a type of identity politics based on the construction of Amazonian communities as historically authentic ethnic identities, with integrated livelihood and environmental concerns aligned with similar alternative economies elsewhere (Shear ). In Santarém, local resistance to soybean expansion draws upon the hope for alternative socio‐ecological production practices (Wald et al.…”
Section: Environmentalism: From Opposition To Environmentalitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Nature Conservancy may not intend to marginalize noncapitalist practices as an explicit goal, but the Responsible Soy program produces limited, but broadly supported conservation outcomes, and therefore divided alliances between social justice and environmental conservation organizations (Baletti ). Those who advocate for the type of socio‐environmental economy based on Amazonian ideas of the Amazon, such as those Pieck () describes, now find themselves with fewer allies.…”
Section: “Responsible Soy” As Neoliberal Environmentalitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Marginalized from the debate, local civil society in Santarém tried in vain to reframe the narrative as a struggle between local sovereignty and global agribusiness, corresponding to wider Amazon political engagement centered on what scholars have called the new "Amazon Nation" (Vadjunec et al 2011). Hecht (2012a) and Pieck (2011) analyze this gathering strength as a type of identity politics based on the construction of Amazonian communities as historically authentic ethnic identities, with integrated livelihood and environmental concerns aligned with similar alternative economies elsewhere (Shear 2010). In Santarém, local resistance to soybean expansion draws upon the hope for alternative socio-ecological production practices (Wald et al 2013).…”
Section: Environmentalism: From Opposition To Environmentalitymentioning
“…Finally, a few words about social movements and alternatives to modernity. There is of course a growing literature that is affirmatively critical of the links between social movements and postdevelopment (Asher , ; Bryan ; Pieck , Wainwright ). Raúl Zibechi's observation on the limits of social movements bringing alternatives to modernity is particularly insightful: Organizing on the basis of modes of everyday life is slow, and using it to make decisions can be a time‐consuming process.…”
Section: Returning To Race Place Gender and Representationmentioning
The Modernity/Coloniality/Decoloniality (MCD) research program is a collective project associated with Latin America. In addition to a critique of Eurocentric “colonial modernity,” the project highlights non‐Eurocentric forms of knowing and being in the world. It also aims to foster alternative or decolonial thinking emerging from the lived colonial experiences of those situated “outside” Europe. This last is what MCD proponents claim differentiates it from postcolonial critiques of modernity with their emphasis on deconstruction. This review provides a brief but critical overview of the MCD project's parameters and claims. It makes a cautionary call to those tempted by “alternatives to modernity,” who might want to uncritically adopt alternative decolonial thinking. It concludes with a call for a closer and critical engagement with Latin American decolonial ideas and those they contest.
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