Winner of the 2017 James M. Blaut Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty
Group of the Association of American Geographers Honorable Mention for the 2016 Book …

Indigenous peoples live in challenging environments and engage in complex negotiations
to access their rights. Yet research on their social mobilization often stereotypes them as …

This article argues that land clearing of the Amazon rainforest has been historically
determined by colonial plans that lead to high rates of tropical deforestation and social …

Throughout the Americas, a boom in oil, gas, and mining development has pushed the
extractive frontier deeper into Indigenous territories. Centering on a long-term study of Enron …

Due to new production areas and persistent productivity gains, Brazil has consolidated its
position as a global leader and even as a 'model'of commercial, integrated crop production …

The increasing awareness of the human impact on the environment is having a profound
effect on the concept and content of citizenship–one of the fundamental institutions that …

Brazil's rate of deforestation has declined by more than 70% since 2004, a dynamic
unimaginable even a decade ago. Even the worst drought in more than 100 years (2010) …

Most 'progressive'Latin American governments, which have come to power over the past
decade or so, continue to rely on agriculture and resource extraction as the primary …

Winner of the 2018 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Brazil Section Book Prize In
1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcântara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art …

The destruction of the Amazon is a major global environmental issue, not only because of
greenhouse gas emissions or direct impacts on biodiversity and livelihoods, but also due to …