Perceiving the Amazon in the Anthropocene
This presentation was given at Oxford University in February 2020International Colloquium on Socio-Environmental Politics.Amazon: Rising Violence and Disturbing Trends. Forests and ways of relating to forests are critical to the planet. In this article, we engage with the debate on the Anthropocene and explore different forms of relationality to forests and Amazonian indigenous symbolism. Drawing […]
Climate mitigation or knowledge deprivation? Learning from indigenous socio-environmental funds
Luiza Muccillo Bica de Barcellos e Maria Fernanda Gebara. Revista Produção E Desenvolvimento, 6.
The Significant Others: A Letter from Coronavirus to GHG
Dear Greenhouse Gases,
Let me first introduce myself. My name is SARS-CoV-2, but you can call me Coronavirus 2. As my name implies, I am a virus, a strain of SARS-CoV-1, possibly born in a wet animal market in Wuhan, China, in early December 2019. I have gone through my usual mutations and I am now reproducing fast.
The Amazon is sending us smoke signals. Will we finally respond?
In 2014 when I was in São Felix do Xingu, Pará, I remember many farmers I was working with saying: “If the government does not fulfil its promises, we will show them who owns the Amazon. And we will do it by burning it.”
O “ICMS Ecológico” – equidade social e eficácia ambiental das transferências fiscais no noroeste de Mato Grosso
Peter May, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Guilherme Lima, Carolina Jordão, Pedro Nogueira and Maryanne Grieg-Gran. In: Leite, S. e Bruno, R. (Orgs.) O rural brasileiro na perspectiva do século XXI. Rio de Janeiro, Garamond, 2019, p. 297-318.
Memory Erasure in Terra Brasilis
‘Terra Brasilis | Indigenous Land’ was a presentation given as part of the XVI Circle of Psychoanalysis and Art – ‘Migrants: Where do they come from? Where are they going?’ at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro – PUC-Rio. I talked about the colonial history of indigenous peoples in Brazil, their resistance, their role […]
Jair Messias Bolsonaro: “the tropical Trump”
Jair Messias Bolsonaro, labelled by international social media as “the tropical Trump”, was elected in Brazil with 55% of votes. What does it mean for the world, and why all Brazilian environmentalists are so worried?
The Real Story: Who owns the Amazon?
Are the Amazon fires an ‘international crisis’? Contributors Daniel Nepstad – Earth Innovation Institute Monica De Bolle – Johns Hopkins University Maria Fernanda Gebara – Anthropologist and researcher Also featuring Ricardo Salles – Brazil’s Environment Minister Johan Eliasch – CEO of Head Celia Xacriaba – Articulation of Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples Nathalia Passarinho – BBC reporter […]
Affective Ecologies, Indigenous Ontologies and Post-Humanism
This presentation looks at affect theory and indigenous ontologies to illustrate their practical significance in understanding and framing human and other-than-human relations. It argues that affective political ecology can help to ensure that the post-humanism turn is equipped to engage critically with the necessary transformations that are required for transitioning into a post-human politics while […]
Indigenous Blood: Not a Single Drop More
This presentation is about the historic legacy of colonization for Indigenous People in the Amazon. “Not a Single Drop More” was a demonstration organised by different Indigenous People from the Amazon in 2019 in different countries around the world. The presentation was given as part of the event “Amazon Indigenous Emergency”, organized by University College […]
