Return from the world : economic growth and reverse migration in Brazil / Gregory Duff Morton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morton, Gregory Duff, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brazil--Social conditions--21st century.

Brazil.

Brazil--Economic conditions--21st century.

Brazil--Rural conditions.

Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra (Brazil).

Urban-rural migration--Brazil.

Urban-rural migration.

Migration, Internal--Economic aspects--Brazil.

Migration, Internal.

Economic development--Social aspects--Brazil.

Economic development.

Agricultural laborers--Brazil--Social conditions.

Agricultural laborers.

Farmers--Brazil--Social conditions.

Farmers.

Agricultural laborers--Social conditions.

Economic development--Social aspects.

Economic history.

Farmers--Social conditions.

Migration, Internal--Economic aspects.

Rural conditions.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Summary:

"In Return from the World, anthropologist Gregory Duff Morton traces the migrations of landless Brazilian peasants who choose to leave cities and the opportunities they offer to return to their home villages. Exploring this phenomenon in cities such as Belo Horizonte and the surrounding villages of Rio Branco and Maracujá, Morton seeks to understand what it means to deliberately turn one's back on the promise of economic growth. Leaving cities and giving up their positions in factories, construction sites, and as domestic workers, rural migrants travel hundreds of miles back to villages without running water or dependable power. There, they often take up farming, engaging in subsistence agriculture or laboring as hired hands in nearby plantations. Bringing their stories vividly to life, Morton dives into the dreams and disputes at play in finding freedom in the shared rejection of accumulation"-- Provided by publisher.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

The phone call home : forms of speech in the growth process

The roads : histories of growth as histories of cooperation

The bus ride : making and unmaking abstract labor

The cargo : marketplaces, labor at a distance, and distance from labor

The money : asset chains, class consciousness, and the transfer of value out of the city

The things you hold : against saving

Conclusion : wait for the coffee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226832906

0226832902

9780226832920

0226832929

OCLC:

1399163950

Publisher Number:

90100689637