Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris is reader in human geography and director of the graduate program on environment and development in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University.Rafael R. Ioris is associate professor of Latin American history at the University of Denver and affiliated faculty in the Latin American Center at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies.Sergei Shubin is associate professor of human geography at Swansea University.

• Chapter 1 – What is New in the Amazon and What is Amazonian in the New? The 21st Century Brand-Old Frontiers of Exploitation and Development Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris and Rafael R. Ioris PART I - Thinking and Making the Amazon FrontierChapter 2 - Revisiting Frontier Theory and the Experience of Frontier-Making Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris Chapter 3 - Conservation Frontier: The Creation of Protected Areas in the Brazilian Amazonia Frederico Freitas Chapter 4 - Politics of Floodplain Tenure in the Amazon Fábio de Castro PART II - Questioning the Basis of Progress, Power and PovertyChapter 5 – What is New in Agribusiness in Brazil? The Long Path of Conservative Modernization in the Perpetual Country-of-the-FutureRafael R. Ioris and Aaron SchneiderChapter 6 – The Socioenvironmental Contradictions of Contemporary Developmentalism: Urbanization, Food Sovereignty and Sustainable Development in the AmazonTatiana Schor and Gustavo S. AzenhaChapter 7 – Rethinking Fluid, Complex and Uncertain Poverty in Amazonian Ecosystems in Bolivia and BrazilSergei Shubin Chapter 8 – Illegal Gold Mining and the Struggle to Save the Amazon in PeruLynn HollandPART III - Identities, Cultures and SubjectivitiesChapter 9 – Hidden Histories: Frontier Situations and Indigenous AgencyJoão Pacheco de Oliveira Chapter 10 – Moving Beyond the Human-Nature Dichotomy: On the Cosmopolitics of the AmazonMaria Fernanda Gebara Chapter 11 – Territorial Conflicts on Brazilian Amazonian Frontiers: A Research and Public Policy FrameworkPaul E. LittleChapter 12 – Slow Violence and Slow Seeing in Beyond FordlândiaMarcos ColónAbout the Contributors

Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris is reader in human geography and director of the graduate program on environment and development in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University.Rafael R. Ioris is associate professor of Latin American history at the University of Denver and affiliated faculty in the Latin American Center at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies.Sergei Shubin is associate professor of human geography at Swansea University.

• Chapter 1 – What is New in the Amazon and What is Amazonian in the New? The 21st Century Brand-Old Frontiers of Exploitation and Development Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris and Rafael R. Ioris PART I - Thinking and Making the Amazon FrontierChapter 2 - Revisiting Frontier Theory and the Experience of Frontier-Making Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris Chapter 3 - Conservation Frontier: The Creation of Protected Areas in the Brazilian Amazonia Frederico Freitas Chapter 4 - Politics of Floodplain Tenure in the Amazon Fábio de Castro PART II - Questioning the Basis of Progress, Power and PovertyChapter 5 – What is New in Agribusiness in Brazil? The Long Path of Conservative Modernization in the Perpetual Country-of-the-FutureRafael R. Ioris and Aaron SchneiderChapter 6 – The Socioenvironmental Contradictions of Contemporary Developmentalism: Urbanization, Food Sovereignty and Sustainable Development in the AmazonTatiana Schor and Gustavo S. AzenhaChapter 7 – Rethinking Fluid, Complex and Uncertain Poverty in Amazonian Ecosystems in Bolivia and BrazilSergei Shubin Chapter 8 – Illegal Gold Mining and the Struggle to Save the Amazon in PeruLynn HollandPART III - Identities, Cultures and SubjectivitiesChapter 9 – Hidden Histories: Frontier Situations and Indigenous AgencyJoão Pacheco de Oliveira Chapter 10 – Moving Beyond the Human-Nature Dichotomy: On the Cosmopolitics of the AmazonMaria Fernanda Gebara Chapter 11 – Territorial Conflicts on Brazilian Amazonian Frontiers: A Research and Public Policy FrameworkPaul E. LittleChapter 12 – Slow Violence and Slow Seeing in Beyond FordlândiaMarcos ColónAbout the Contributors

Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris is reader in human geography and director of the graduate program on environment and development in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University.Rafael R. Ioris is associate professor of Latin American history at the University of Denver and affiliated faculty in the Latin American Center at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies.Sergei Shubin is associate professor of human geography at Swansea University.

• Chapter 1 – What is New in the Amazon and What is Amazonian in the New? The 21st Century Brand-Old Frontiers of Exploitation and Development Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris and Rafael R. Ioris PART I - Thinking and Making the Amazon FrontierChapter 2 - Revisiting Frontier Theory and the Experience of Frontier-Making Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris Chapter 3 - Conservation Frontier: The Creation of Protected Areas in the Brazilian Amazonia Frederico Freitas Chapter 4 - Politics of Floodplain Tenure in the Amazon Fábio de Castro PART II - Questioning the Basis of Progress, Power and PovertyChapter 5 – What is New in Agribusiness in Brazil? The Long Path of Conservative Modernization in the Perpetual Country-of-the-FutureRafael R. Ioris and Aaron SchneiderChapter 6 – The Socioenvironmental Contradictions of Contemporary Developmentalism: Urbanization, Food Sovereignty and Sustainable Development in the AmazonTatiana Schor and Gustavo S. AzenhaChapter 7 – Rethinking Fluid, Complex and Uncertain Poverty in Amazonian Ecosystems in Bolivia and BrazilSergei Shubin Chapter 8 – Illegal Gold Mining and the Struggle to Save the Amazon in PeruLynn HollandPART III - Identities, Cultures and SubjectivitiesChapter 9 – Hidden Histories: Frontier Situations and Indigenous AgencyJoão Pacheco de Oliveira Chapter 10 – Moving Beyond the Human-Nature Dichotomy: On the Cosmopolitics of the AmazonMaria Fernanda Gebara Chapter 11 – Territorial Conflicts on Brazilian Amazonian Frontiers: A Research and Public Policy FrameworkPaul E. LittleChapter 12 – Slow Violence and Slow Seeing in Beyond FordlândiaMarcos ColónAbout the Contributors