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Fábio Zuker

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Anthropologist, journalist. Ecology, deforestation, toxicity, global health, Indigenous rights and financialization of nature in the Amazon. Postdoc at the University of São Paulo. Before Princeton, Cornell. 📚Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon

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Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · Nov 24

In 2022, my book found its way into the world. 🌿🐋 This book is not just about a whale; it reflects the intersections of ecology, history, and human lives in the Amazon, where stories of life are deeply intertwined with nature. #EnvironmentalStorytelling #NatureWriting
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The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon: Dispatches from the Brazilian Rainforest

Amazon.com: The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon: Dispatches from the Brazilian Rainforest: 9781571311818: Zuker, Fábio, Fitz, Ezra: Libros

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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · 18d

OnlineFirst - "Brazilian concentration camps for drought refugees 1915/1932" by Laura Belik:

#camps #drought #climaterefugee #Brazil #SouthAmerica

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Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · 16d

🌱 New paper out!

In this article I introduce “expulsion by suffocation,” showing how glyphosate-driven soybean plantations in the Amazon quietly but profoundly unsettle ecologies, livelihoods, and futures.
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Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · 23d

📚 Thrilled to share that I’ve signed a contract with University of California Press!!

My upcoming book explores the political ecologies of deforestation, practices of resistance and care, and planetary health in the Amazon, with a focus on the Tapajós region.

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Jonathan Watts @jonathan-watts.bsky.social · Jul 24

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza

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‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza

For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly

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Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · Jul 10

Serrote 50 já está nas livrarias e no site do IMS:

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Agradeço imensamente ao Paulo Roberto Pires e ao Guilherme Freitas pelo trabalho editorial impecável.

SERROTE 50 - A loja do IMS - Instituto Moreira Salles - na internet

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Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · Jul 10

O ensaio parte de uma viagem a Rio Branco (AC) em meio à fumaça tóxica das queimadas que tornaram a cidade a mais poluída do mundo em setembro de 2024.

Analiso como nostalgia expansionista, vitimismo climático e erosão democrática compõem uma ecologia política da extrema direita.

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Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · Jul 10

🚨 Nova publicação — “Carbofascismo”
Feliz em compartilhar que meu novo ensaio acaba de sair na Serrote #50.

Nele, proponho pensar como regimes autoritários fazem da queima intensa de carbono, da destruição ambiental e do negacionismo climático pilares de ofensivas contra a ordem democrática-liberal

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Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · Jun 12

Na próxima segunda-feira vou apresentar no Hospital Universitário da USP um pouco sobre meu trabalho investigando o uso de agrotóxicos na Amazônia, e do que venho chamando de "expulsão por asfixia". Para quem não puder estar presente, aqui o link da apresentação online: meet.google.com/yic-viiq-qtd

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Agência Pública @apublica.org · Jun 5

DOM E BRUNO | São três anos desde o assassinato do jornalista Dom Philips e do indigenista Bruno Pereira. Em janeiro, a antropóloga e viúva de Bruno, Beatriz Matos, refletiu sobre a violência histórica enfrentada na região em episódio especial da série Morte e Vida Javari, da Pública. Veja:

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Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · May 9

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘A cemetery of trees’: vast green expanses turned to dust as loggers plunder South America’s Gran Chaco

Jaguars, giant armadillos and ocelots among species threatened by shrinking habitat in one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world

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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · Apr 25

"Sex Is a Spectrum will be important for introducing a
wide readership to the nuances of scientific
understandings of variability in sex and of
the biocultural constitution of humans, and
I believe that there is much for biologists to
appreciate in the book as well." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The variable nature of sex

An anthropologist shows why we should think beyond the binary

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Alexandre de Santi @alexdesanti.bsky.social · Mar 31

Brazil’s plans to build ports and roads to help move grains, beef and iron ore from the rainforest echo a development vision that dates back to the military dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Brazil plans new Amazon routes linking the Pacific & China’s New Silk Road

Brazil’s plans to build ports and roads to help move grains, beef and iron ore from the rainforest echo a development vision that dates back to the military dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · Mar 31

Além de em inglês, o texto está disponível em português também:

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As múltiplas existências do glifosato: uma etnografia da indústria agroalimentar seguindo um veneno | Revista de Antropologia

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Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · Mar 31

I'm happy to share that, together with my brilliant colleague Jessica Ferreira Cardoso, we've just published a review of Vincanne Adams's book "Glyphosate and the Swirl"

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Vista do As múltiplas existências do glifosato: uma etnografia da indústria agroalimentar seguindo um veneno

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Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · Mar 7

Thank you, Professor Denise Osborne, for the invitation, and to the students and faculty for the engaging discussion that followed.

Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · Mar 7

I'm glad to have concluded this week teaching an online class at Cornell University, "Indigenous Ecologies Confronting Amazon Deforestation", reflecting on deforestation driven by soy expansion and intensive agrochemical use, and how Indigenous ecologies navigate and resist these challenges

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Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · Feb 25

Looking for recommendations: Does anyone know of a good article that synthesizes the policies and violence of the Brazilian military dictatorship toward Indigenous groups? I'm particularly interested in what we call in Portuguese "política assimilacionista"

Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · Feb 18

Just noticed this coincidence: Feb 16 is Reporter’s Day in Brazil, and Feb 17 is International Whale Day. I’m most proud of this story—the whale that appeared in the Amazon. It became a book, with a dream review in Los Angeles Review of Books and coverage in The New York Times.

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Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · Feb 17

A palestra que dei na Universidade de Coimbra está disponível online: "Financeirização da flroesta: soja, agrotóxicos e vírus" (apenas em português)

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Financeirização da floresta: soja, agrotóxicos e vírus

YouTube video by Eco Amazonia

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Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · Feb 15

Last year, our collagen investigation, published in The Guardian, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and O Joio e o Trigo, won a Covering Climate Now award. Don't miss the opportunity to apply!

Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · Feb 13

🥁 It's that time of year again... We know you've all been waiting for it... Submissions are OPEN for the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards! 🎉

The Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards — Covering Climate Now

Entry submissions are OPEN for the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. This is the fifth year for our annual awards program, and every year we’re amazed by the quality and variety of work ent...

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Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · Feb 5

Terça que vem, terei a honra de conversar nesse evento on-line da Universidade de Coimbra com o Renzo Taddei sobre a minha pesquisa no Baixo Tapajós.
Agradeço a Karen Shiratori pelo convite
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Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · Jan 16

In just one month our Science article on Indigenizing Conservation Strategies in the Amazon has reached nearly 10,000 downloads! 🌱📖 #IndigenousKnowledge #AmazonConservation #EnviroAnthro

Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · Dec 12

Happy to share that we're publishing in at Science this article, fruit of two years of work between Indigenous and non-Indigenous scientists on how to indigenize conservation in the Amazon. A direct result of my time at Princeton, alongside the brillant co-authors.

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Indigenizing conservation science for a sustainable Amazon

Dialogues between Western and Indigenous systems are critical

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Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · Jan 13

I am happy to share that Revista Mana has just published my article, in English and Portuguese:

Destroying the territory, weakening the body: an essay on food, illness and quebranto among the Tupinambá of Lower Tapajós in Northern Brazil

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Destroying the territory, weakening the body: an essay on food, illness and quebranto among the Tupinambá of Lower Tapajós in Northern Brazil

Abstract: This article explores the intricate connections between territorial degradation,...

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Fábio Zuker @fabiozuker.bsky.social · Jan 3

Incrível, Luísa! Thanks for adding me :)

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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · Nov 9

Okay folks, I also compiled a list of environmental / multispecies anthropologists. #EnviroAnthro
#AnthroSky #Anthropology

It's VERY incomplete, so please let me know who I missed, or if you'd like to be added.

[Or, of course, if you'd like to be removed from this list.]

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