Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 & Online
Long-histories of human-environment relations have shed new light to the formation of Amazonian forests. Drawing from situated reciprocal knowing, geospatial analysis, and community-based research in the Purus River region of Brazil, this talk thinks with the temporal perspectives of Indigenous Apurinã biosocial economies that have effectively prevented deforestation in the Southwestern Amazon.
Speaker: Pirjo Virtanen (Indigenous Studies, University of Helsinki) is the author of Indigenous Youth in Brazilian Amazonia: Changing Lived Worlds (Palgrave, 2012), and co-editor of Creating Dialogues: Indigenous Perceptions and Changing Forms of Leadership in Amazonia (Colorado University Press, 2017) and Indigenous Research Methodologies in Sámi and Global Contexts (Brill, 2021).
Sponsor(s): Center for Brazilian Studies, Latin American Institute
