The Human Ecology of Tropical Land Settlement in Latin America. Edited by Debra A. Schumann and William L. Partridge. 1989, Migrants to Amazonia: Spontaneous Colonization the Brazilian Frontier. By Judith Lisansky. 1990, and Land Clearing and Development in the Tropics. Edited by R. Lal, P. A. Sanchez, R. W. Cummings, Jr., and A. A. Balkema. 1986

1991 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 196-197
Author(s):  
J. O. Browder
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Human Ecology ◽  
Land Settlement ◽  
Land Clearing ◽  
The Tropics

The Human Ecology of Tropical Land Settlement in Latin America

1990 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 289
Author(s):  
Clifford T. Smith ◽  
Debra A. Schumann ◽  
William L. Partridge
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Human Ecology ◽  
Land Settlement

Improvisations of a Tropical Cartesianism

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Coelho
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Third World ◽  
Reflection Index ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Negative Dialectics ◽  
Fundamental Reflection ◽  
The Tropics

This article presents the contrasting views and theories formulated by European intellectuals such as Claude Lévis-Strauss and Max Bense on the situation of Brazil and Latin America in relation to the main centers of twentieth century criticism. It analyzes improvisation as a fundamental reflection index on the possibilities that third world countries have for negotiating the European Cartesian paradigm. If for some thinkers improvisation and its corollaries are proof that these countries and their people would live forever on the margins or in negative dialectics within the heritage of Enlightenment reason, for others it is precisely there--in the possibility of reinventing reason from hybridisms, strategic appropriations, and re-readings--that the creative and autonomous potentials in the post-colonial world lie. This article is situated precisely in the conflict between reason and the tropics, and looks to bring the debate up to date.

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