A01=Gregory Duff Morton
abstract labor
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
assets
Author_Gregory Duff Morton
authoritative discourse
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HD
Category=JB
Category=JBSL
Category=JHMC
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
economic growth
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Language_English
MST landless movement
PA=Available
peasant
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
reverse migration
saving
social class
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9780226832920
- Weight: 367g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jul 2024
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
An anthropologist’s investigation of why some Brazilians choose to leave behind a booming economy and return to their villages.
In Return from the World, anthropologist Gregory Duff Morton traces the migrations of Brazilian workers who leave a thriving labor market and return to their home villages to become peasant farmers. Morton seeks to understand what it means to turn one’s back deliberately on the promise of economic growth.
Giving up their positions in factories, at construction sites, and as domestic workers, these migrants travel thousands of miles back to villages without running water or dependable power. There, many take up subsistence farming. Some become activists with the MST, Brazil’s militant movement of landless peasants. Bringing their stories vividly to life, Morton dives into the dreams and disputes at play in finding freedom in the shared rejection of growth.
In Return from the World, anthropologist Gregory Duff Morton traces the migrations of Brazilian workers who leave a thriving labor market and return to their home villages to become peasant farmers. Morton seeks to understand what it means to turn one’s back deliberately on the promise of economic growth.
Giving up their positions in factories, at construction sites, and as domestic workers, these migrants travel thousands of miles back to villages without running water or dependable power. There, many take up subsistence farming. Some become activists with the MST, Brazil’s militant movement of landless peasants. Bringing their stories vividly to life, Morton dives into the dreams and disputes at play in finding freedom in the shared rejection of growth.
Gregory Duff Morton is assistant professor at City College of New York, where he teaches anthropology and Latin American studies. This is his first book.
