{"title":"The Ruins of a Steel Mill: Planetary Urbanization in the Brazilian Amazon","authors":"Adrián Lerner Patrón","doi":"10.1177/00961442231209298","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article studies the socio-environmental history of a steel mill in Manaus, Brazil, the largest city in Amazonia. The Companhia Siderúrgica da Amazônia Sociedade Anônima, SIDERAMA, an integrated steel mill created in 1961 and liquidated in 1997 after a convoluted history of mismanagement, was part of private and public efforts to colonize the Brazilian Amazon through industrial urbanization. Exploring its impacts at a diversity of scales, the article presents it as a historical case study of planetary urbanization. The steel mill polluted the city of Manaus, and resource extraction to feed it with materials and energy disrupted environments and societies deep into the Amazon rainforest. This process underscores the global reach of urbanization during the second half of the twentieth century and the need to rethink the role of Amazonia during the Anthropocene.","PeriodicalId":46838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban History","volume":"2009 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Urban History","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442231209298","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article studies the socio-environmental history of a steel mill in Manaus, Brazil, the largest city in Amazonia. The Companhia Siderúrgica da Amazônia Sociedade Anônima, SIDERAMA, an integrated steel mill created in 1961 and liquidated in 1997 after a convoluted history of mismanagement, was part of private and public efforts to colonize the Brazilian Amazon through industrial urbanization. Exploring its impacts at a diversity of scales, the article presents it as a historical case study of planetary urbanization. The steel mill polluted the city of Manaus, and resource extraction to feed it with materials and energy disrupted environments and societies deep into the Amazon rainforest. This process underscores the global reach of urbanization during the second half of the twentieth century and the need to rethink the role of Amazonia during the Anthropocene.
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The editors of Journal of Urban History are receptive to varied methodologies and are concerned about the history of cities and urban societies in all periods of human history and in all geographical areas of the world. The editors seek material that is analytical or interpretive rather than purely descriptive, but special attention will be given to articles offering important new insights or interpretations; utilizing new research techniques or methodologies; comparing urban societies over space and/or time; evaluating the urban historiography of varied areas of the world; singling out the unexplored but promising dimensions of the urban past for future researchers.
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