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Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Eve E. Buckley
2017
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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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Keywords
- agronomists in Latin American history
- Belissário Penna
- Brazilian cordéis
- Brazilian environmental history
- Brazilian sertão
- Celso Furtado
- civil engineers in Latin American history
- DNOCS Brazil
- drought and regional development
- drought and social marginality
- drought in Brazil
- drought in the sertão
- environmental history of Latin America
- Environmental science, engineering & technology
- Getulio Vargas
- History
- History of the Americas
- Humanities
- Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
- José Américo Almeida
- José Guimarães Duque
- Latin American technocrats
- literatura de cordel and drought
- Miguel Arrojado Lisboa
- Northeast Brazil
- Regional & national history
- regional development in Brazil
- science, technology and public health in Latin America
- sertanejos and drought
- technocrats and development in Latin America
- technocrats in Brazil
- Technology, engineering, agriculture
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas
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