Ana Luiza Soares, PhD
@analuizamsoares.bsky.social
(She/her/Ela)Historical Anthropologist/mom. Assistant Professor at @ufop.bsky.social History of child separation/Amazonian cities/urban indigeneities/Indigenous social media 🇧🇷
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Child Separation and the Stolen Generation of Brazil: Indigenous Peoples’ (Un)Freedom in Amazonia | Latin American Research Review | Cambridge Core
Child Separation and the Stolen Generation of Brazil: Indigenous Peoples’ (Un)Freedom in Amazonia
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My latest article covering the crucial issue of Indigenous child separation on the eve of emancipation in Amazonia. The stolen generation of Brazil! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group is pleased to share our latest Spotlight on Scholarship: @analuizamsoares.bsky.social Ana Luiza Soares’ powerful research into how discourses of "orphanhood" can facilitate racialised exploitation of children in the context of 19thC Brazil.
July 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group is pleased to share our latest Spotlight on Scholarship: @analuizamsoares.bsky.social Ana Luiza Soares’ powerful research into how discourses of "orphanhood" can facilitate racialised exploitation of children in the context of 19thC Brazil.
My job has the best views #ouropreto 🇧🇷
April 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
My job has the best views #ouropreto 🇧🇷
Global north being global north! During the Grammys ceremony, which they thought it was super “woke”, this happened: great disrespect with Brazilian artist and living legend, Milton Nascimento. Thank you, Esperanza, for speaking up
February 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Global north being global north! During the Grammys ceremony, which they thought it was super “woke”, this happened: great disrespect with Brazilian artist and living legend, Milton Nascimento. Thank you, Esperanza, for speaking up
Article headed by my friend Mariana Cassiano and especially relevant for ecologists: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Thinking with Amazonian Indigenous Peoples to expand ideas on domestication
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Article headed by my friend Mariana Cassiano and especially relevant for ecologists: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Check out this blog post about an amazing conversation between Indigenous knowledge and ecology and stay tuned for the full article coming out soon! This is parte of the doctoral dissertation of the amazing Mariana Cassino. relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/01/27/p...
Plain Language Summary: Thinking with Amazonian Indigenous Peoples about human-nature relationships.
Domestication model of Amazonian forests, illustrated by the Indigenous artist Yaka Hunikuin. Inspired by Amazonian Indigenous worldviews, this model emphasizes the existence of diverse beings R…
relationalthinkingblog.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Check out this blog post about an amazing conversation between Indigenous knowledge and ecology and stay tuned for the full article coming out soon! This is parte of the doctoral dissertation of the amazing Mariana Cassino. relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/01/27/p...
Reposted by Ana Luiza Soares, PhD
My article with Agricultural History, "Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica's Sugar Industry, 1910-1940," explores banana disease through the lens of sugar, showing the larger effects of crop diseases on agroecosystems #envhist
read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural...
read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural...
Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica's Sugar Industry, 1910–1940
Abstract. This article analyzes the revitalization of Jamaica's sugar industry in the first half of the twentieth century and the overall shift in agricultural focus from bananas back to sugar in the ...
read.dukeupress.edu
December 9, 2024 at 6:11 PM
My article with Agricultural History, "Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica's Sugar Industry, 1910-1940," explores banana disease through the lens of sugar, showing the larger effects of crop diseases on agroecosystems #envhist
read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural...
read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural...
Reposted by Ana Luiza Soares, PhD
The gardeners of the Amazon: manatees - this is fascinating news.mongabay.com/2024/11/rese...
Researcher discovers new role played by manatees, ‘the gardeners of the Amazon’
MANAUS, Amazonas, Brazil — Located near the confluence of the Solimões and Japurá rivers, Lake Amanã, which means “the path of the rain,” is known as the home of the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inun...
news.mongabay.com
December 6, 2024 at 8:46 AM
The gardeners of the Amazon: manatees - this is fascinating news.mongabay.com/2024/11/rese...
Sharing this amazing Serrapilheira’s article, so crucial in times of Marco Temporal being discussed in Brazilian congress. This study proves conservation isn’t just ethical; it’s vital for our economy. Protecting these lands means securing our future! serrapilheira.org/en/rainfall-...
Rainfall from Amazonian Indigenous Territories accounts for 57% of Brazil's agricultural income - Instituto Serrapilheira
Survey warns that R$ 338 billion of Brazil’s economy is at risk due to environmental degradation in Indigenous Territories A landmark study by 10 scientists and […]
serrapilheira.org
December 6, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Sharing this amazing Serrapilheira’s article, so crucial in times of Marco Temporal being discussed in Brazilian congress. This study proves conservation isn’t just ethical; it’s vital for our economy. Protecting these lands means securing our future! serrapilheira.org/en/rainfall-...
Reposted by Ana Luiza Soares, PhD
Excited to share my latest piece with the @carsoncenter.bsky.social on a banana disease “cure” and questions of trust in times of ecological crisis #envhist
New 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article: “Confidence in a Confidence Man: A Banana-Disease ‘Solution’ in Late Colonial Jamaica” by Matthew Plishka. Read it on our Environment & Society Portal!
@mattplishka.bsky.social #envhist
@mattplishka.bsky.social #envhist
Confidence in a Confidence Man: A Banana-Disease “Solution” in Late Colonial Jamaica
This article examines a “cure” for Panama disease in 1930s Jamaica, highlighting an attempt to profit off ecological vulnerability.
www.environmentandsociety.org
November 21, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Excited to share my latest piece with the @carsoncenter.bsky.social on a banana disease “cure” and questions of trust in times of ecological crisis #envhist
Amazing course this Spring at Vanderbilt University taught by my friend @phdjesus.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Amazing course this Spring at Vanderbilt University taught by my friend @phdjesus.bsky.social
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If you do any work in the Humanities, consider applying for a 3 year postdoc at Vanderbilt in the Collaborative Humanities!
Apply for a Postdoc
Position Title: Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Program Close Date: February 2, 2025 The Program Vanderbilt University’s College of Arts and Science and the Robert Penn Warren Center for the H...
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November 12, 2024 at 12:19 AM
If you do any work in the Humanities, consider applying for a 3 year postdoc at Vanderbilt in the Collaborative Humanities!
My latest article covering the crucial issue of Indigenous child separation on the eve of emancipation in Amazonia. The stolen generation of Brazil! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Child Separation and the Stolen Generation of Brazil: Indigenous Peoples’ (Un)Freedom in Amazonia | Latin American Research Review | Cambridge Core
Child Separation and the Stolen Generation of Brazil: Indigenous Peoples’ (Un)Freedom in Amazonia
www.cambridge.org
November 18, 2024 at 2:25 PM
My latest article covering the crucial issue of Indigenous child separation on the eve of emancipation in Amazonia. The stolen generation of Brazil! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...