Return from the World : Economic Growth and Reverse Migration in Brazil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morton, Gregory Duff.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra (Brazil).

Agricultural laborers--Brazil--Social conditions.

Agricultural laborers.

Economic development--Social aspects--Brazil.

Economic development.

Farmers--Brazil--Social conditions.

Farmers.

Migration, Internal--Economic aspects--Brazil.

Migration, Internal.

Urban-rural migration--Brazil.

Urban-rural migration.

Brazil--Social conditions--21st century.

Brazil.

Brazil--Economic conditions--21st century.

Brazil--Rural conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1 The Phone Call Home: Forms of Speech in the Growth Process

2 The Roads: Histories of Growth as Histories of Cooperation

3 The Bus Ride: Making and Unmaking Abstract Labor

4 The Cargo: Marketplaces, Labor at a Distance, and Distance from Labor

5 The Money: Asset Chains, Class Consciousness, and the Transfer of Value Out of the City

6 The Things You Hold: Against Saving

Conclusion: Wait for the Coffee

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780226832913

0226832910

OCLC:

1432914635