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Under the presidency of Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022), the Amazon faced unprecedented threats. The Amazon in Times of War shows how deliberate state policies lay behind the violence and devastation inflicted upon the Brazilian Amazon and its inhabitants.
Author: Marcos Colón
Colón is the Southwest Borderlands Initiative Professor of Media and Indigenous Communities at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. His research focuses on Brazilian literary and cultural studies, with a particular emphasis on the Amazon, Indigenous studies, and representations of natureculture in documentary film and world cinema.