Marianne Schmink and Jeffrey Hoelle
Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, 3-4 PM, Ellison Hall 4th floor conference room (UCSB)
Schmink and Woods‘ Contested Frontiers in Amazonia (1992) documented the complex social, environmental, and political consequences of the opening of the once remote municipality of São Felix do Xingu (SFX) to colonization beginning in the 1970s. In recent decades, population and standard of living have increased, violence and land conflict have decreased, but the future of SFX remains unsettled, as the heart of an expanding agricultural frontier with skyrocketing deforestation rates. ...