The Choices of the Left: The Paradox of the New Developmentalist State

Dagnino, Evelina

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-03288-3_4

The Brazilian Left in the 21st Century

2019

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03288-3_4

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The Choices of the Left: The Paradox of the New Developmentalist State

Evelina Dagnino

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Forest Lost’s introduction presents the book’s focus on efforts to make the living forest and its carbon valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Forest carbon is a strange commodity, the introduction suggests, because it requires not the extraction entailed in the production of many other tropical forest commodities but rather that forest carbon be held in place in the living forest. Forest Lost centers on the relational work required to keep that carbon in place. The introduction presents this relational approach, as well as the contested social inclusion and apparent contradictions of green capitalism that come into view through it. It also introduces the state of Acre, Brazil, which is the book’s primary ethnographic focus, and discusses the Amazon as a resource, environmental, and imaginative frontier.

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Carbon Boom: Chapter 1 analyzes a key component of the effort to make Acrean forest carbon valuable: Acrean rubber history and its retelling. It also presents key components of Acrean history: the rubber boom, the development of the famed rubber tapper social movement, and subsequent state government administrations that sometimes promoted a forest-protective form of economic development. It shows how, as part of this latter effort, the story of rubber helped to make the Acrean forest a potentially valuable source of carbon offsets for international buyers in places like California, almost leading to a forest carbon boom in the state. Elucidating green capitalism, the chapter traces how the materiality of forest carbon and other new environmental commodities can militate for stories of social inclusion and stability that contrast with the stories often told about extractive frontiers. Yet these inclusive stories contain their own form of standardization, and their own omissions.

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Highway Landscapes

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The Choices of the Left: The Paradox of the New Developmentalist State

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