These essays share intimate stories of life and Indigenous resistance in the Amazon rainforest during an age of raging wildfires, mass migration, populist politics, and increasing deforestation.
These essays share intimate stories of life and Indigenous resistance in the Amazon rainforest during an age of raging wildfires, mass migration, populist politics, and increasing deforestation.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Fábio Zuker is the author of The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon. A writer and journalist, he holds a master¿s degree from the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris and is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo. He has also been three times a Pulitzer Center grantee. As a journalist he is a frequent contributor to Thomson Reuters Foundation and InfoAmazonia who has written for National Geographic, Revista Piauí, Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil, Agência Pública, and Nexo Jornal, among others. He is also the author of On an Escape Route: Essays on Writing, Fear, and Violence (Hedra Editions, only available in Portuguese). In recent years he has focused his research on stories of the Amazon rainforest, looking to write ¿nearby¿ the people whose land is being destroyed and their approaches to resistance.
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Contents Introduction: Writing as the Projection of Worlds A Forest in Flames Brazilians and Venezuelans: A Chronicle of Hatred and Compassion The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon An Afternoon with Venezuelans at the Manaus Bus Terminal Overpass The Self-Demarcation of Tupinambá Indigenous Land in the Lower Tapajós River Basin Anamã: Six Months Under Water, Six Months on Dry Land What They Really Want Is to Kill Us : Violence and Destruction in a Mega-Açaí Farm in Pará The Poison Fields Nature Herself is Drying Up : A Quilombo on the Island of Marajó Feels the Impact of Rice Paddies Amid Turbulent Times The Kumuã of the Upper Rio Negro and the Decolonization of Indigenous Bodies Between the Festival and the Fight: The Life of the First Indigenous Person in Brazil to Die from COVID-19 Epilogue: Writing Nearby
Contents Introduction: Writing as the Projection of Worlds A Forest in Flames Brazilians and Venezuelans: A Chronicle of Hatred and Compassion The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon An Afternoon with Venezuelans at the Manaus Bus Terminal Overpass The Self-Demarcation of Tupinambá Indigenous Land in the Lower Tapajós River Basin Anamã: Six Months Under Water, Six Months on Dry Land What They Really Want Is to Kill Us : Violence and Destruction in a Mega-Açaí Farm in Pará The Poison Fields Nature Herself is Drying Up : A Quilombo on the Island of Marajó Feels the Impact of Rice Paddies Amid Turbulent Times The Kumuã of the Upper Rio Negro and the Decolonization of Indigenous Bodies Between the Festival and the Fight: The Life of the First Indigenous Person in Brazil to Die from COVID-19 Epilogue: Writing Nearby
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