"Heroes and Villains in the discourse of the Amazonian Bioeconomy of Brazil"

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• Emiliano Cabrera Rocha, University of Cambridge
• Tuesday 02 May 2023, 13:00-14:00
• HB101.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Valerio Donfrancesco.

Native forests should outcompete plantations, cattle ranching and mining, say proponents of the bioeconomy in the Brazilian Amazon. They envision a future of winners and losers, in which the political ecologies of deforestation give way to indigenous knowledge, agroforestry and science. They want to stop, prevent and reverse the ongoing deforestation; they want forest dwellers to do well, forests to keep standing. But who are they? In this session, I will share some of the visions, proposals, expectations and fears that my fieldwork interlocutors shared with me as I tried to understand what the “standing-forest bioeconomy” is, and how Amazonian scientists, indigenous activists, rural producers, students and entrepreneurs become enrolled in its making.

This talk is part of the Political Ecology Group meetings series.

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