This is a Department of Spanish and Portuguese event.
Jessica Carey-Webb (University of New Mexico) will be in conversation with Jennifer Eaglin (Ohio State University) to discuss their field-specific methods for the study of extractivism and development in Latin America.
Join us for this discussion of the environmental, cultural, and historical dimensions of extractive zones in Latin America, a distinct setting to examine the political, social, and ecological implications of resource extraction, commodification of nature, socioeconomic development, and human costs. Speakers will discuss their research on these topics in the region, with emphasis on Brazil and the Amazon, and providing insight into the intersections between environmental history, sustainability, and the impact of resource extraction from different disciplinary perspectives.
Dr. Carey-Webb is a former ACLS fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council and currently an assistant professor of Lusophone Studies at UNM. Her book Eyes on Amazonia (Vanderbilt UP, 2024) studies narratives informing the modernizing project of the Amazon region during the rubber boom of the early twentieth century.
Dr. Jennifer Eaglin is a historian of modern Latin American energy development and an associate professor of environmental history/sustainability at Ohio State University. Her first book, Sweet Fuel: A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol (Oxford University Press, 2022) examines Brazil's sugar-based ethanol industry.
Co-sponsored by the Department of History, the Sustainability Institute, the Department of Comparative Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies and the Humanities Institute..
