Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Eve E. Buckley’s study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation’s hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and economic development. Nowhere was the tension between technocratic optimism and entrench...
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| description | Eve E. Buckley’s study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation’s hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and economic development. Nowhere was the tension between technocratic optimism and entrenched inequality more evident than in the drought-ridden Northeast sertão, plagued by chronic poverty, recurrent famine, and mass migrations. Buckley reveals how the physicians, engineers, agronomists, and mid-level technocrats working for federal agencies to combat drought were pressured by politicians to seek out a technological magic bullet that would both end poverty and obviate the need for land redistribution to redress long-standing injustices. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1217342025-03-20T19:42:59Z Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil Buckley, Eve E. Northeast Brazil Brazilian sertão drought in Brazil drought in the sertão sertanejos and drought drought and regional development regional development in Brazil technocrats in Brazil Latin American technocrats technocrats and development in Latin America science, technology and public health in Latin America civil engineers in Latin American history environmental history of Latin America Brazilian environmental history agronomists in Latin American history drought and social marginality DNOCS Brazil Belissário Penna Celso Furtado Miguel Arrojado Lisboa José Guimarães Duque Instituto Oswaldo Cruz Getúlio Vargas José Américo Almeida Brazilian cordéis literatura de cordel and drought Eve E. Buckley’s study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation’s hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and economic development. Nowhere was the tension between technocratic optimism and entrenched inequality more evident than in the drought-ridden Northeast sertão, plagued by chronic poverty, recurrent famine, and mass migrations. Buckley reveals how the physicians, engineers, agronomists, and mid-level technocrats working for federal agencies to combat drought were pressured by politicians to seek out a technological magic bullet that would both end poverty and obviate the need for land redistribution to redress long-standing injustices. 2023-11-17T08:32:09Z 2023-11-17T08:32:09Z 2023-10-19T07:43:40Z 2017 book ONIX_20231019_9798890852465_6 OCN: 993690314 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76867 9798890852465 9781469634296 9781469634326 9781469634302 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121734 eng open access image/png image/png image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76867/2/9781469634326.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76867/2/9781469634326.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76867/1/9798890852465.pdf The University of North Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press 10.5149/9781469634319_Buckley 10.5149/9781469634319_Buckley f46e5319-8d09-4c63-b9f2-a13480694ab4 National Endowment for the Humanities 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9798890852465 9781469634296 9781469634326 9781469634302 The University of North Carolina Press 298 Chapel Hill [...] open access |
| spellingShingle | Northeast Brazil Brazilian sertão drought in Brazil drought in the sertão sertanejos and drought drought and regional development regional development in Brazil technocrats in Brazil Latin American technocrats technocrats and development in Latin America science, technology and public health in Latin America civil engineers in Latin American history environmental history of Latin America Brazilian environmental history agronomists in Latin American history drought and social marginality DNOCS Brazil Belissário Penna Celso Furtado Miguel Arrojado Lisboa José Guimarães Duque Instituto Oswaldo Cruz Getúlio Vargas José Américo Almeida Brazilian cordéis literatura de cordel and drought Buckley, Eve E. Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil |
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