Troubled Tapajós - Popular Politics and Threat of Disposession by Dam in the Amazon

Introduction - 4 The 'Ita Community' - context and transformations - 7 Rubber time - 10 Recent memory and gold rush - 12 Village, territory, land and property - 16 Dictatorship and State interventions in the Tapajos - 20 Democracy and govemmentality - 22 Govemmentality and political society in Ita - 24 Democracy andpolitical society in Ita - 27 Dam dispossession and parochial popular politics - 33 The Breaking of a topographic landmark: citizenship and sovereignty - 35 Futurity as a cultural fact - 39 A present of prophecy, prognosis, and progress - 41 Futurities in time of crisis - 45 Community politics and corporate mediation - 46 Bibliography - 49