The Logic of Poverty
eBook - ePub

The Logic of Poverty

The Case of the Brazilian Northeast

  1. 201 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Logic of Poverty

The Case of the Brazilian Northeast

About this book

First published in 1981, The Logic of Poverty consists of eight essays that share at least one assumption: that Northeast Brazil provides a startling example of inhumane economic development. The contributors have all worked in the area, and know it at first hand. They look at rural structure and the role of the unemployed 'reserve army', the state of the sugar industry, the ineffectiveness of the irrigation schemes, the stagnation in the fishing sector, the lack of credit available to peasants and the role of SUDENE, the first development agency in the region. Together they paint a picture of poverty and of the factors that allow it to continue, and they place that poverty in the context of the wider economy of Brazil, relating it to the extraordinary transformation that has been called 'the Brazilian miracle'. This book will be of interest to students of geography, anthropology, economics and sociology.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781032762593
eBook ISBN
9781040026304
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Cultural & Social Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Original Title Page
  6. Original Copyright Page
  7. Contents
  8. Tables
  9. Contributors
  10. Preface
  11. 1 Introduction
  12. 2 Rural Structure, Surplus Mobilisation and Modes of Production in a Peripheral Region: The Brazilian Northeast
  13. 3 Hunger in the Northeast: Some Historical Aspects
  14. 4 The Hungry Imagination: Social Formation, Popular Culture and Ideology in Bahia
  15. 5 On the Relationship Between the Subsistence Sector and the Market Economy in the Parnaíba Valley
  16. 6 Stagnant Peasant Capitalism: The Case Of Inshore Fishermen in Northeastern Brazil
  17. 7 Innovation and Social Structure: The Sugar Industry of Northeast Brazil
  18. 8 Irrigation in the Brazilian Northeast: Anti-Drought or Anti-Peasant?
  19. 9 State and Society in Northeastern Brazil: Sudene and the Role of Regional Planning