caa a22 4500 445806745 CHVBK 20180317145158.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10745-011-9407-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10745-011-9407-x Bratman Eve School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC, USA aut Villains, Victims, and Conservationists? Representational Frameworks and Sustainable Development on the Transamazon Highway [Elektronische Daten] [Eve Bratman] Literature on conservation and land reform politics concentrates on how local actors are characterized dualistically as either environmental villains or heroes. Here I present three different frames as exemplary of the multiple narratives at stake as actors create environmental subjectivities in relation to political opportunity, based primarily on ethnographic field research in a case study of Projects for Sustainable Development (PDSs) located in the Transamazon highway region of the Brazilian Amazon. I argue that local identities are mediated by their shifting relationships with other interested actors. Through a historical analysis of different frames of identity and land use, I examine how and why representation struggles occurred and shifted, based upon the ways in which powerful actors took advantage of political opportunities. This led to indeterminate outcomes in different local struggles across the region. In the process, local voices were often undermined in favor of interests of more powerful outsiders. The political process through which such struggles occur yield geographically and socially uneven effects contingent upon key events and contestation from disparate groups. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Conservation nationallicence Development nationallicence Amazon nationallicence Land reform nationallicence Social movements nationallicence Socio-environmentalism nationallicence Project for Sustainable Development nationallicence Brazil nationallicence Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/4(2011-08-01), 441-453 0300-7839 39:4<441 2011 39 10745 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9407-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9407-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bratman Eve School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/4(2011-08-01), 441-453 0300-7839 39:4<441 2011 39 10745 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer