The International Colloquium “AMAZON’S RISING VIOLENCE AND DISTURBING TRENDS”, to be held in the United Kingdom in 2020, will bring important indigenous leaders, peasants and social movement activists to dialogue with teachers, artists and researchers concerned with socio-environmental problems of the Amazon Region. The main objective will be to debate […]
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- October 15, 2019
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Draft Programme – “AMAZON’S RISING VIOLENCE AND DISTURBING TRENDS” 30 Jan – 02 Feb 2020, Oxford University contact: info@agrocultures.org Thursday 30 Jan – Mini-movie Festival: Contemporary Amazonia Ultimate Picture Palace (movies to be announced) Friday 31 Jan – Rhodes House 8:30 Arrival – registration 9:00 Welcoming words – Introduction by […]
Amazing and Charming. These two words reveal a little of what was the cultural presentation of the group Sons de Beira based in Porto Velho (Rondonia, Brazil), which brightened the closing night (23/09) of the IV International Seminar “Agrocultural Frontiers in the Amazon: Contested Stories, Emerging Cultures and National Territorialities”, […]
- September 18, 2019
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The Agrocultures International Network invites scholars researchers, students, policy makers, activists and other experts to send their abstracts for the colloquium that will be held in the University of Oxford on 31 January – 02 February 2020 (with the option to continue until 02 Feb, depending on the number of […]
- September 17, 2019
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Published on The Guardian, 2 Sep 2019, at: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/02/amazon-destruction-earth-brazilian-kayapo-people?CMP=share_btn_link You destroy our lands, poison the planet and sow death, because you are lost. And soon it will be too late to change For many years we, the indigenous leaders and peoples of the Amazon, have been warning you, our brothers who […]