Edited Book - The Amazon River Basin: Extractivism, Indigenous Perspectives and a Politial Aesthetics of Resistance

 

This book brings together a selection of articles that reflect upon the various cycles of extractivism that have impacted the Amazon River Basin from the beginning of the past century onwards, and communal, political and artistic resistance to these predatory practices.

 

 

Edited Book - Contemporary Brazilian Indigenous Thought and Ecology

(with Karen Shiratori and Malcolm McNee)

 

This co-edited book offers a panorama of contemporary Brazilian thought and its relation to ecology. Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies consider that there is a continuity between different forms of existence and see the encounter between beings as connections to be negotiated in an incessant cosmopolitics. This interdependence between humans and non-humans has decisive consequences for human politics, insofar as, for Indigenous peoples, the link to their ancestral home is key to their lives. Indigenous ecological thought can therefore not be separated from the struggle for the demarcation and protection of Indigenous lands faced with the expansion of the extractivist frontier.  

 

 

Edited Book - Monocultures: Ecocultural Perspectives

(with Martinho Soares)

 

The volume brings together scholars from the natural, social, and human sciences for a reflection on monocultures through an ecocultural lens, exploring the connection between culture and nature beyond disciplinary or epistemological boundaries. Monocultures, as standardized and redundant semiotic areas that destroy (bio)diversity, are the opposite of the creative dynamics of natureculture. Chapters in the book will reflect upon our monocultural world and upon alternatives to biological and cultural uniformity.

 

 

Special Issue of Journal of Lusophone Studies - Beyond Shores: Aquatic Imaginaries in the Portuguese Speaking World

(with Leila Lehnen and Victoria Saramago)

 

Despite the centrality of bodies of water, scholars often adopt a land-based perspective when discussing Portuguese-speaking texts, films, and artworks. Moving away from this landlocked perspective, this special issue  seeks to foreground an aquatic point of view, following recent scholarship in hydrohumanities and blue humanities, and to engage with cultural production on bodies of water from a transhistorical and interdisciplinary perspective.

 

 

Special issue of Monde(s). Histoire, Espaces, Relations - After Pristine Nature: Writing environmental history from and about the Amazon

(with Antoine Acker, Danielle Viegas and Patrick Roberts)

 

 

This special issue that understands pristine nature not as an endpoint but as a point of departure to new trends in global environmental history from and about the Amazon region, its populations, cosmopolitics, and territories. The volume endorses the understanding of narrative as a pivotal element of historical sciences and opens up space to push the boundaries in global history based on research on Amazonia that emerges from multi-species relations, post-humans, and structural shifts in the technosphere.