Indigenous spiritualities: Transforming the future through ancestral knowledge
Maria Fernanda Gebara ABSTRACT Some argue that the socioecological crisis is a spiritual crisis. In this chapter, I analyze the role of Indigenous spiritualities in anthropocentric attitudes by reframing the way we relate to nature. Indigenous spiritualities could be interpreted as the spiritual beliefs and practices that Indigenous peoples identify as being “traditional.” It is […]
Institutional jelling in socio-ecological systems: Towards a novel theoretical construct?
Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi, Bishawjit Mallick, Gertrud Buchenrieder, Tobias Haller, Jürgen Pretzsch, Maria Fernanda Gebara ABSTRACT Institutional dynamics trigger resource management decisions and practices around socio-ecological systems (SESs), with (sub-) optimal management outcomes. For instance, studies show that formal institutions are continually prioritized over informal ones in land use decisions – the latter also countervailing the […]
Governance and conservation: Effectiveness in protected areas and indigenous and locally managed areas
Yin Zhang, Paige West, Lerato Thakholi et al. Annual Review of Environment and Resources Volume 48, 2023.
Private sector perception of reducing deforestation in Brazil: Analysis of challenges from 2010 to 2019
Patrícia Gallo, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Tatiane Micheletti, Alice Dantas Brites. Rev. Prod. Desenvolv., Rio de Janeiro, v.9: e637, Jan-Dez, 2023.
Indigenous knowledge in the Amazon’s bioeconomy: Unveiling bioepistemicide through the case of kambo
Maria Fernanda Gebara, Sabaheta Ramcilovic-Suominen and Michael Franz Schmidlehner. Forest Policy and Economics, Volume 154, 2023.
Listening to plants: Indigenous rituals and transitions
Maria Fernanda Gebara. Amazonia Latitude. 2022.
Ecological justice in post-COVID-19 politics: The role of affective ecologies and amazonian indigenous ontologies
Maria Fernanda Gebara. In “Environment, Climate and Social Justice”, eds. Madhanagopal, D., Beer, C.T., Nikku, B.R., Pelser, A.J. Springer, Singapure.
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.
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.
