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Forest Citizens: Changing Life Conditions and Social Identities in the Land of the Rubber Tappers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Marianne Schmink
Marianne Schmink*
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University of Florida
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In the past few decades, a new era of socioenvironmental institutions and policies has promoted experimentation with alternative proposals for managing land and resources in the Amazon region. The rubber tappers' home state of Acre was transformed by the florestania policies of the “forest government” regimes that built on the rubber tappers' identity and history to promote forest-based development and to extend citizenship rights. Beginning in 1999, the state became a laboratory for experimentation with new approaches to development, at a time of rapid changes among both urban and rural populations. This article uses data from household surveys in the capital city of Rio Branco, as well as extensive secondary literature, to trace the evolution of these new policies and projects and their ambiguous implications for citizenship and sustainable development.

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En las últimas décadas una nueva era de instituciones y políticas socio-medioambientales han promovido la experimentación con propuestas alternativas de gestión de la tierra y de los recursos en la región del Amazonas. Acre, estado natal de los huleros, fue transformado por las políticas de florestaría de los gobiernos que se basaron en la identidad e historia de dichos huleros para lograr un desarrollo basado en la selva y extender los derechos de ciudadanía. Desde 1999, Acre se ha convertido en un laboratorio para la experimentación con nuevas aproximaciones al desarrollo al mismo tiempo que se han producido rápidos cambios en las poblaciones urbanas y rurales. En este artículo se utilizan datos obtenidos a través de encuestas realizadas a unidades familiares de la capital, Rio Branco, así como una extensa literatura secundaria, para a través de ello trazar la evolución de esas nuevas políticas y proyectos y sus ambiguas consecuencias para la ciudadanía y el desarrollo sostenible.

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Latin American Research Review , Volume 46 , Issue S1: Contemporary Debates on Ecology, Society, and Culture in Latin America , 2011 , pp. 141 - 158
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Copyright © 2011 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

The author gratefully acknowledges the insightful conceptual and editorial contributions of Charles H. Wood and Philip J. Williams.

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