Return from the World: Economic Growth and Reverse Migration in Brazil - Tapa dura

Morton, Gregory Duff

 
9780226832906: Return from the World: Economic Growth and Reverse Migration in Brazil
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ISBN 10: 0226832902 ISBN 13: 9780226832906
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2024

Sinopsis

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.

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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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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
2024
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226832902
ISBN 13 
9780226832906
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Número de páginas
264
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