Fábio Zuker
@fabiozuker.bsky.social
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
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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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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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OnlineFirst - "Brazilian concentration camps for drought refugees 1915/1932" by Laura Belik:
#camps #drought #climaterefugee #Brazil #SouthAmerica
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#camps #drought #climaterefugee #Brazil #SouthAmerica
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September 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
OnlineFirst - "Brazilian concentration camps for drought refugees 1915/1932" by Laura Belik:
#camps #drought #climaterefugee #Brazil #SouthAmerica
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#camps #drought #climaterefugee #Brazil #SouthAmerica
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🌱 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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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.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🌱 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.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
📚 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.
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.
September 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
📚 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.
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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‘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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July 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
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🚨 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
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
July 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🚨 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
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
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
June 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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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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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June 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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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"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/...
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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April 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"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/...
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/...
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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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March 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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.
@fabiozuker.bsky.social for @mongabay.bsky.social
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@fabiozuker.bsky.social for @mongabay.bsky.social
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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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March 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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"
revistas.usp.br/ra/article/v...
revistas.usp.br/ra/article/v...
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
March 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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
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"
February 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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"
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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February 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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.
bit.ly/4hZ0Po6
bit.ly/4hZ0Po6
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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February 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A palestra que dei na Universidade de Coimbra está disponível online: "Financeirização da flroesta: soja, agrotóxicos e vírus" (apenas em português)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut1W...
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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!
🥁 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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February 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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!
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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Agradeço a Karen Shiratori pelo convite
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February 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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
eco.ces.uc.pt/financeiriza...
Agradeço a Karen Shiratori pelo convite
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In just one month our Science article on Indigenizing Conservation Strategies in the Amazon has reached nearly 10,000 downloads! 🌱📖 #IndigenousKnowledge #AmazonConservation #EnviroAnthro
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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January 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In just one month our Science article on Indigenizing Conservation Strategies in the Amazon has reached nearly 10,000 downloads! 🌱📖 #IndigenousKnowledge #AmazonConservation #EnviroAnthro
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
www.scielo.br/j/mana/a/wwp...
www.scielo.br/j/mana/a/wwp...
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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January 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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
www.scielo.br/j/mana/a/wwp...
www.scielo.br/j/mana/a/wwp...
Destroying the territory, weakening the body: an essay on food, illness and quebranto among the Tupinambá of Lower Tapajós in Northern Brazil
www.scielo.br/j/mana/a/wwp...
www.scielo.br/j/mana/a/wwp...
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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.]
go.bsky.app/Hax2cvh
#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.]
go.bsky.app/Hax2cvh
November 9, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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.]
go.bsky.app/Hax2cvh
#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.]
go.bsky.app/Hax2cvh
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This reporting was over a year in the making. Our investigation into how Israel weakened its own internal rules on killing civilians in Gaza, to allow for one of the deadliest bombardments in the 21sr century: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...
Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians
Surprised by Oct. 7 and fearful of another attack, Israel weakened safeguards meant to protect noncombatants, allowing officers to endanger up to 20 people in each airstrike. One of the deadliest bomb...
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December 26, 2024 at 3:57 PM
This reporting was over a year in the making. Our investigation into how Israel weakened its own internal rules on killing civilians in Gaza, to allow for one of the deadliest bombardments in the 21sr century: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...
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Brutal realidade de mulheres nas cadeias iranianas
A brutal realidade na cadeia de mulheres iranianas presas por não cobrir os cabelos
Submetidas a interrogatórios, espancamentos e celas apertadas, mulheres criam vínculos fortes entre si dentro de Evin, em Teerã
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December 19, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Brutal realidade de mulheres nas cadeias iranianas
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December 19, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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Israel accused of act of genocide over restriction of Gaza water supply
Israel accused of act of genocide over restriction of Gaza water supply
Human Rights Watch says Israeli forces have acted deliberately to cut availability of clean water
Israel’s restriction of Gaza’s water supply to levels below minimum needs amounts to an act of genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity, a…
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December 19, 2024 at 5:13 AM
Israel accused of act of genocide over restriction of Gaza water supply
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Human Rights Watch said that Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza by denying them clean water which it says legally amounts to acts of genocide and extermination reut.rs/3Bz7uWE
Human Rights Watch says Israel's deprivation of water in Gaza is act of genocide
Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza by denying them clean water which it says legally amounts to acts of genocide and extermination.
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December 19, 2024 at 6:29 AM
Human Rights Watch said that Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza by denying them clean water which it says legally amounts to acts of genocide and extermination reut.rs/3Bz7uWE