Event overview
With Professor Stephen Nugent, Goldsmiths. Part of 'Anthropology in the Anthropocene', Spring Term seminar series.
The history of the Amazon is poorly understood, not least because of the tendency to idealize both the social (lost tribes in the forest) and natural (green hell). The rubber industry is perhaps the best-known historical epoch, but it too succumbs to idealization: a hundred year-long extractive industry upon which industrialization in Europe and North America depended is conventionally depicted as a 'boom', an unexpected and decadent moment followed by a regional decline. A re-examination of the period challenges the 'boom' characterization and draws parallels with the current forms of resource extraction.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 10 Jan 2018 | 3:15pm - 5:15pm |
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