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Frontier Security and The New Indigenism: Nature and Origins of the Calha Norte Project

In: The Future of Amazonia

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  • João Pacheco Oliveira Filho

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There are many government projects and programmes for Amazonia — the Plan for National Integration (PIN), POLAMAZONIA, PROBOR, POLONOROESTE, and the Greater Carajás Programme (PGC), amongst others — whose roots go back to the 1970s at a different moment in Brazil’s economic and political history, but whose consequences are felt up to the present time. They derive from a diversity of circumstances, of funding sources and executive institutions, generally expressing the interests both of those who control the Brazilian economy and of their overseas partners. The assumptions and directives of modernisation theory are advanced in the hope that the principles of a market economy will gradually come to characterise settlement of the interior. Thus, agricultural and agroindustrial activities are emphasised, along with a concern for indicators of economic efficiency and the balancing of migratory flows, in the hope of reconciling these economic goals with social programmes of directed assistance to small farmers.

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  • João Pacheco Oliveira Filho, 1990. "Frontier Security and The New Indigenism: Nature and Origins of the Calha Norte Project," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: David Goodman & Anthony Hall (ed.), The Future of Amazonia, chapter 7, pages 155-176, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-21068-8_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-21068-8_7
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