We are witnessing a new momentum in critical agrarian studies. In the last two decades, multiple crises around food, feed, fuel, natural resources extractivism, land, finance, labor, migration, environment and human rights have converged. All of these contribute to global resource grabbing in an era of capitalism and climate change which affect the most vulnerable…
Author: Dibe Ayoub
Dibe Ayoub obtained her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology (2016) from the National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. Currently, she is a postdoctorate researcher at the same institution and receives a scholarship from the Carlos Chagas Filho Research Foundation (Faperj). Dibe is a member of the coordination of NuAP – Anthropology of Politics Research Network. She was a substitute professor at the Department of Cultural Studies, Federal Fluminense University (2016-2017), and an assistant professor at the Agrarian Development Research Center, Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (CPDA/UFRRJ, 2019). Since 2009, Dibe has been working with traditional communities and social movements in Southern Brazil. Her main research interests are conflict, violence, land, politics, gender, human-animal relations.
Pandemics and the specter of hunger in Brazil: a multidimensional crisis and a negationist president
The COVID-19 pandemic arrives in Brazil at a time of political and economic crisis, deepened by the fact that the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro is one of the few remaining world negationist leaders – frequently minimizing the gravity of the pandemic and urging for the end of social isolation measures so that economic activity may…