CV Lattes
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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Graduated in Geography (1988), MA in Geography (1994) Ph.D. in Geography (1999) from the University of São Paulo. Post doctorate by the Institute for the Study of Latin American and Caribbean - University of South Florida (2008) Full Professor at UNESP (2013). Professor of undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Geography at the Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Presidente Prudente campus. Professor of the Post - Graduate Program in Territorial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean - TERRITORIAL - the Institute for Public Policy and International Relations - IPPRI / UNESP, São Paulo campus. He was a visiting professor at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Ecuador), National University of Cordoba, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero (Argentina), University of La República (Uruguay), Academy of Christian Humanism University (Chile), Universidad de Caldas (Colombia) Stanford University (USA), International Institute of Social Studies (HOL) and School of Geography and Planning - Cardiff University. Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair oo the Territorial Development and Education of the Countryside, which presides over the field Voices collection and the collection Peasants Studies and Agrarian Change, published by Editora Unesp. Referee of the National Scientific and Technological Development Council (CNPq), the Foundation of São Paulo (FAPESP), Higher Education Personnel Improvement Coordination (Capes), SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online and the following journals: Human Geography (USA) Journal of Peasants Studies (Holanda),Terra Livre abda NERA Journals (Brazil) Cómo pensar la Geografia (Mexico). Researcher at the Center for Studies, Research and Agrarian Reform Project (Nera). Member of the National Pedagogic Council of the National Education in Agrarian Reform Program (Pronera) at the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA). Author of "The formation of the MST in Brazil" and co-authored with João Pedro Stedile of "Brava Gente". It has experience in the field of Geography, with emphasis on territorial development in Latin America and the Caribbean, researching the following topics: theories of territories, paradigms of the agrarian question and the agrarian capitalism, agrarian reform, territorial development, Landless Workers' Movement (MST) and Via Campesina. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, meat processing plants in Brazil and the United States have become centers of contagion for the disease. From a geographical point of view, the chronology of the contagion suggests that the plants acted in the subsequent spatialization of COVID-19 in their territories, reaching communities of immigrant workers, indigenous people and neighborin…
Inside the agrarian reform settlements there's a continuous territorial conflict for the territorialities' control, that is, to control the uses of the territory. These conflicts generate different forms and degrees of subordination and emancipation. We define as subaltern territorialities those in which the capital uses the countrymen's land, appropriating the income from landsmen territ…
The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) has a long history of struggle for the transformation of society, starting with the need to democratize access to land. Through their struggle, hundreds of thousands of families were settled by agrarian reform and conquered fractions of Brazilian territory. But, after the settlement, other struggles are necessary: for land rent and for the market.…
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The occupation of rural territories in Colombia such as in other Latin American countries, led to favor the land concentration and the emergence of territorial disputes and permanent conflictivity. More than four decades of internal armed conflict have caused agrarian changes in the forms of use and concentration of rural territories, favoring landowners, illegal armed groups, politicians…
This research project consists of the continuation of the master's degree research that, during the general qualification exam, was indicated for the direct doctorate. Based on the study of the territorialization of Argentine, Brazilian and Uruguayan agribusiness in Paraguay, our objective is to analyze the new territorial dynamics created by the process of land foreignization, inserted i…
This project consists of studying the territorial impacts of Vale S/A megaproject of coal extraction in Moatize, province of Tete - Mozambique. We will analyze this reality through the theoretical reference on extractive policies or neo-extractivism, in contrast to the concept of sustainable development of VALE S/A and from the conceptual debate with other concepts such as territory, sust…
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The process of foreignization of land in Paraguay is not recent, intensifying as from 2007/2008 and emerging different peculiarities in relation to other countries. Simultaneously to the increase of land appropriation in worldwide scale appear different researches and publications about the theme, without a consensus as regards of this process, because every researcher and multilateral/go…
This project comprises an important point of reflection in the contribution to the theoretical construct proposed in the doctoral thesis entitled: "Movements and Networks: Articulation of networks in online social networks by socio-spatial and socio-territorial movements in Brazil and Argentina". The United Kingdom is an important reference in this research and theoretical analysis concer…
In the 21st century, capital is going through a renewed stage of accumulation by dispossession of the natural common goods which the countries of the "global South" have; based on three main strategies: i) production of agro-commodities, ii) mineral and energy projects, iii) real estate/tourist enterprise and land grabbing. In this paper we analyze the processes and transformations that c…
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