Indigenous Brazil Violated
Challenges and risks faced by indigenous peoples in today’s Brazil
This project partnership between Cardiff University and LAB, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, completed its work in 2021.
Lead researchers were: Antonio Ioris, Reader in human geography at the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University; Dr. Vitale Joanoni Neto (co-investigator) associated professor at the Department of History at the Federal University of Mato Grosso; and Dr. Pedro Rapozo, a lecturer at Amazonas State University and Coordinator of the Amazon Social-Environmental Studies Center. The LAB team comprised Sue Branford, Tom Gatehouse & Mike Gatehouse.
The projects objectives were:
Three phases were planned:
However, the Covid pandemic made completion of phases 2 and 3 impossible. In partial compensation a sub-project collected a large number of articles and testimonies about the impact of Covid-19 on indigenous communities. Many of these can be found here.
The main research outputs were the two Media Analysis studies:
Some articles based on the study are listed below. Click on the links to find LAB articles about Indigenous Peoples, the Amazon, Brazil, etc., or by using the filters on LAB’s News page.
For more information about the project, please contact Antonio Ioris (iorisa@cardiff.ac.uk)
Many of the themes of the project are included in LAB’s book The Amazon in Times of War by Marcos Colón. You can order copies here.