@fabiozuker
Anthropologist, journalist. Ecology, deforestation, toxicity, global health, Indigenous rights and financialization of nature in the Amazon. Postdoc at the University of São Paulo. Before Princeton, Cornell. 📚Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon
OnlineFirst - "Brazilian concentration camps for drought refugees 1915/1932" by Laura Belik:
#camps #drought #climaterefugee #Brazil #SouthAmerica
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🌱 New paper out!
In this article I introduce “expulsion by suffocation,” showing how glyphosate-driven soybean plantations in the Amazon quietly but profoundly unsettle ecologies, livelihoods, and futures.
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📚 Thrilled to share that I’ve signed a contract with University of California Press!!
My upcoming book explores the political ecologies of deforestation, practices of resistance and care, and planetary health in the Amazon, with a focus on the Tapajós region.
‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
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Serrote 50 já está nas livrarias e no site do IMS:
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Agradeço imensamente ao Paulo Roberto Pires e ao Guilherme Freitas pelo trabalho editorial impecável.
O ensaio parte de uma viagem a Rio Branco (AC) em meio à fumaça tóxica das queimadas que tornaram a cidade a mais poluída do mundo em setembro de 2024.
Analiso como nostalgia expansionista, vitimismo climático e erosão democrática compõem uma ecologia política da extrema direita.
🚨 Nova publicação — “Carbofascismo”
Feliz em compartilhar que meu novo ensaio acaba de sair na Serrote #50.
Nele, proponho pensar como regimes autoritários fazem da queima intensa de carbono, da destruição ambiental e do negacionismo climático pilares de ofensivas contra a ordem democrática-liberal
Na próxima segunda-feira vou apresentar no Hospital Universitário da USP um pouco sobre meu trabalho investigando o uso de agrotóxicos na Amazônia, e do que venho chamando de "expulsão por asfixia". Para quem não puder estar presente, aqui o link da apresentação online: meet.google.com/yic-viiq-qtd
DOM E BRUNO | São três anos desde o assassinato do jornalista Dom Philips e do indigenista Bruno Pereira. Em janeiro, a antropóloga e viúva de Bruno, Beatriz Matos, refletiu sobre a violência histórica enfrentada na região em episódio especial da série Morte e Vida Javari, da Pública. Veja:
"Sex Is a Spectrum will be important for introducing a
wide readership to the nuances of scientific
understandings of variability in sex and of
the biocultural constitution of humans, and
I believe that there is much for biologists to
appreciate in the book as well." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Brazil’s plans to build ports and roads to help move grains, beef and iron ore from the rainforest echo a development vision that dates back to the military dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s.
@fabiozuker.bsky.social for @mongabay.bsky.social
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Além de em inglês, o texto está disponível em português também:
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I'm happy to share that, together with my brilliant colleague Jessica Ferreira Cardoso, we've just published a review of Vincanne Adams's book "Glyphosate and the Swirl"
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Thank you, Professor Denise Osborne, for the invitation, and to the students and faculty for the engaging discussion that followed.
I'm glad to have concluded this week teaching an online class at Cornell University, "Indigenous Ecologies Confronting Amazon Deforestation", reflecting on deforestation driven by soy expansion and intensive agrochemical use, and how Indigenous ecologies navigate and resist these challenges
Looking for recommendations: Does anyone know of a good article that synthesizes the policies and violence of the Brazilian military dictatorship toward Indigenous groups? I'm particularly interested in what we call in Portuguese "política assimilacionista"
Just noticed this coincidence: Feb 16 is Reporter’s Day in Brazil, and Feb 17 is International Whale Day. I’m most proud of this story—the whale that appeared in the Amazon. It became a book, with a dream review in Los Angeles Review of Books and coverage in The New York Times.
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A palestra que dei na Universidade de Coimbra está disponível online: "Financeirização da flroesta: soja, agrotóxicos e vírus" (apenas em português)
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Last year, our collagen investigation, published in The Guardian, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and O Joio e o Trigo, won a Covering Climate Now award. Don't miss the opportunity to apply!
Terça que vem, terei a honra de conversar nesse evento on-line da Universidade de Coimbra com o Renzo Taddei sobre a minha pesquisa no Baixo Tapajós.
Agradeço a Karen Shiratori pelo convite
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In just one month our Science article on Indigenizing Conservation Strategies in the Amazon has reached nearly 10,000 downloads! 🌱📖 #IndigenousKnowledge #AmazonConservation #EnviroAnthro
I am happy to share that Revista Mana has just published my article, in English and Portuguese:
Destroying the territory, weakening the body: an essay on food, illness and quebranto among the Tupinambá of Lower Tapajós in Northern Brazil
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Incrível, Luísa! Thanks for adding me :)
Okay folks, I also compiled a list of environmental / multispecies anthropologists. #EnviroAnthro
#AnthroSky #Anthropology
It's VERY incomplete, so please let me know who I missed, or if you'd like to be added.
[Or, of course, if you'd like to be removed from this list.]
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This reporting was over a year in the making. Our investigation into how Israel weakened its own internal rules on killing civilians in Gaza, to allow for one of the deadliest bombardments in the 21sr century: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...
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Israel accused of act of genocide over restriction of Gaza water supply
Human Rights Watch said that Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza by denying them clean water which it says legally amounts to acts of genocide and extermination reut.rs/3Bz7uWE
