On the invisible wars
Since 2019 the world is at war with coronavirus and its variants. A war with an invisible enemy. Coronavirus has gained all the attention with its unprecedented coronation, but how many other unseeing wars are happening that have a great impact to the world’s population?
Battling for life
Pay attention! The most important protest on Earth is happening right now.
Where the material and the symbolic intertwine: Making sense of the Amazon in the anthropocene
Joana Castro Pereira e Maria Fernanda Gebara. Review of International Studies, 2022, 1-20.
Pandemics, conservation, and human-nature relations
Maria Fernanda Gebara, Peter H. May, Gunars Platais. Climate Change Ecology, 2021, 2.
Rethinking the Economy after Coronavirus
Recent responses to the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred reactions to how access to wild animals and their products may spread infectious disease from such animals to humans. This has unleashed an onslaught of debate in the scientific and related policy literature on nature conservation, human and animal rights, and efforts to alleviate global poverty among […]
Indigenous Ontologies and New Becomings
Since COVID-19 started many indigenous elders have died, raising fears that the pandemic may inflict irreparable damage on Indigenous ancestral ontologies. This presentation shows how Amazonian indigenous ontologies could help in changing anthropocentric attitudes and transitioning from the COVID-19 crisis. Global efforts to address crises are often characterized as ‘blueprints’ devoid of political and cultural […]
Pandemics, conservation and human nature relations
In this presentation, we look at the links between pandemics, conservation, and human-nature relations. We start by questioning who is invading whom? The most serious pandemics in recorded history have their causes rooted in unsustainable anthropic intervention on land and biodiversity. With the world on lockdown, rapid social changes have increased the opportunities to re-think […]
The pluriversality of efforts to reduce deforestation in Brazil over the past decade: An analysis of policy actors’ perceptions
Maria Fernanda Gebara, Patrícia Gallo, Alice Brites, Guilherme Lima, Tatiane Micheletti. Forests 2020, 11, 1061.
Why we should learn how to listen to other than human beings?
Last month, part of the world witnessed a remarkable solar eclipse. Thanks to scientific knowledge, we now know that this is an astronomical phenomenon involving different celestial bodies – sun, moon and earth –, quantifiable and predictable by astronomy. But for many centuries, before astronomy became a science, such phenomenon was observed and interpreted in different ways by a variety of traditional, pre-industrial cultures. For instance, the disappearance of daylight was interpreted by aboriginal Australians negatively, frequently being associated with bad omens, evil magic, disease, blood and death. The ancient Greeks believed that a solar eclipse was a sign of angry gods and that it was the beginning of disasters and destruction.
Thinking beyond human-nature dichotomy: on the cosmopolitics of the Amazon
Maria Fernanda Gebara. In “Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks and Resistance”, eds. Antonio Ioris, Rafael Rossotto Ioris, Sergei Shubin. Lexington Books.
