- Lise Sedrez is associate professor at the Instituto de Historia, UFRJ, and was Associate Professor at the History Dep... moreLise Sedrez is associate professor at the Instituto de Historia, UFRJ, and was Associate Professor at the History Department at California University, Long Beach. She is the co-editor of the book series Latin American Landscapes with the University of Arizona Press, and the coordinator of the Graduate Program on Social History (PPGHIS) at UFRJ. She holds a M.S. in Environmental Policy Studies, from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in History from Stanford University, where she was awarded a Lieberman Fellowship for excellence in teaching. Lise also taught at Ramapo College, New Jersey, The College of William & Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia, and Faculdade da Cidade, in Rio de Janeiro, and worked for environmental non-profit organizations in Brazil, such as Greenpeace, IBASE and WWF. She still keeps up-to-date with her environmental activism. Lise has published her work in Italy, Colombia, Brazil and USA. Her research interests include environmental history of Latin America, urban history, history of science and history of disasters.
Lise loves fencing and is a great cook—she has an award-winning tiramisu recipe. When she is not obsessively surfing the Internet, she enjoys trekking, dancing and traveling.edit
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The article illustrates the reemergence of the Atlantic Forest biome in Morro da Babilônia, a favela in Rio de Janeiro, due to a reforestation project started in the 1980s conducted by institutional actors and the local community. The... more
The article illustrates the reemergence of the Atlantic Forest biome in Morro da Babilônia, a favela in Rio de Janeiro, due to a reforestation project started in the 1980s conducted by institutional actors and the local community. The forest has played an important role in reinvigorating the sense of community, by legitimizing ownership claims that the community has made over the area, and by serving as a mitigation strategy in a context of increasing climatic-extreme events. In 2019 a team of researchers started an oral history project to document the social and environmental transformation of the favela. Interviews with members of the community and representatives of institutional partners opened up unexpected paths into people's memories and perspectives. In a frame of socioeconomic, political and environmental violence, injustice, and vulnerability, the making of a multispecies city and its related narratives turned out to be instrumental for the community's survival.
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As toxic pollutants and hazardous production emerged across the twentieth century, first-world states came to play a guardian role, imposing constraints on capital to safeguard their workers, communities, and environments. As we enter the... more
As toxic pollutants and hazardous production emerged across the twentieth century, first-world states came to play a guardian role, imposing constraints on capital to safeguard their workers, communities, and environments. As we enter the new century, vigorous protest and debate over the character and conditions of neoliberal globalization center on whether or how to reaffirm or extend such protections in an era of free trade, capital mobility, privatization, and deregu- lation. From Rio to Seattle, Kyoto to Prague, controversy arises over where the locus of authority for codes of corpo- rate conduct might rest. Can states be redeemed as guardians and still avert a destructive "race to the bottom"? Can existing supranational bodies or regimes be charged with design and enforcement of global standards, or are new international institutions imperative? Dare we trust multina- tional corporations (MNCs) to police themselves? What is the proper role of advocacy networks and civ...
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Resenha de McNeill, John R; Padua, Jose A. e Rangarajan, Mahesh. Environmental History: as if nature existed. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2010, 240 p.
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Os autores introduzem a rica experiência da III Escola de Pós-Graduação em História Ambiental da SOLCHA, ocorrida em outubro de 2017 em Anápolis, GO, que deu origem aos textos deste dossiê. Uma visão geral dos artigos deste número, assim... more
Os autores introduzem a rica experiência da III Escola de Pós-Graduação em História Ambiental da SOLCHA, ocorrida em outubro de 2017 em Anápolis, GO, que deu origem aos textos deste dossiê. Uma visão geral dos artigos deste número, assim como o detalhamento do processo de seleção, fecha o texto introdutório.
The new Bulletin of the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO).
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Chapter Twenty-Five Environmental History of Modern Latin America Lise Sedrez When the Portuguese Prince Regent João de Braganza arrived with his court in Rio de Janeiro in 1808, the colonial capital, with a population of some 50000... more
Chapter Twenty-Five Environmental History of Modern Latin America Lise Sedrez When the Portuguese Prince Regent João de Braganza arrived with his court in Rio de Janeiro in 1808, the colonial capital, with a population of some 50000 people, was surrounded by ...
Page 108. Earlier Images of the Amazon in 6 the USA Lise Fernanda Sedrez History Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2024, USA The text presents selected representations of the Amazon in the American mentality. ...
UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. Learn more... ProQuest, 'The bay of all beauties': State and environment in Guanabara Bay,... more
UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. Learn more... ProQuest, 'The bay of all beauties': State and environment in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1875--1975. ...
Shortly after the Spanish conquest of central Mexico, indigenous artists from the town of Cuauhtinchan (near modern Puebla) created a large painting (109 x 204 cm) on bark paper that tells a complex story of migration, ritual, history,... more
Shortly after the Spanish conquest of central Mexico, indigenous artists from the town of Cuauhtinchan (near modern Puebla) created a large painting (109 x 204 cm) on bark paper that tells a complex story of migration, ritual, history, identity, and much more. In Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: ...
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Equilibri Rivista per lo sviluppo sostenibile ISSN : 1594-7580. Numero: 3, dicembre 1998, Indice. DOI: 10.1406/1933. L'Amazzonia brucia Lise Fernanda Sedrez, pp. 343-352 7 [pdf 46K ...
'Think globally, act locally' has become a call to environmentalist mobilization, proposing a closer connection between global concerns, local issues and individual responsibility. A History of Environmentalism explores this dialectic... more
'Think globally, act locally' has become a call to environmentalist mobilization, proposing a closer connection between global concerns, local issues and individual responsibility. A History of Environmentalism explores this dialectic relationship, with ten contributors from a range of disciplines providing a history of environmentalism which frames global themes and narrates local stories.
Each of the chapters in this volume addresses specific struggles in the history of environmental movements, for example over national parks, species protection, forests, waste, contamination, nuclear energy and expropriation. A diverse range of environments and environmental actors are covered, including the communities in the Amazonian Forest, the antelope in Tibet, atomic power plants in Europe and oil and politics in the Niger Delta. The chapters demonstrate how these conflicts make visible the intricate connections between local and global, the body and the environment, and power and nature. A History of Environmentalism tells us much about transformations of cultural perceptions and ways of production and consuming, as well as ecological and social changes.
More than offering an exhaustive picture of the entire environmentalist movement, A History of Environmentalism highlights the importance of the experience of environmentalism within local communities. It offers a worldwide and polyphonic perspective, making it key reading for students and scholars of global and environmental history and political ecology.
Each of the chapters in this volume addresses specific struggles in the history of environmental movements, for example over national parks, species protection, forests, waste, contamination, nuclear energy and expropriation. A diverse range of environments and environmental actors are covered, including the communities in the Amazonian Forest, the antelope in Tibet, atomic power plants in Europe and oil and politics in the Niger Delta. The chapters demonstrate how these conflicts make visible the intricate connections between local and global, the body and the environment, and power and nature. A History of Environmentalism tells us much about transformations of cultural perceptions and ways of production and consuming, as well as ecological and social changes.
More than offering an exhaustive picture of the entire environmentalist movement, A History of Environmentalism highlights the importance of the experience of environmentalism within local communities. It offers a worldwide and polyphonic perspective, making it key reading for students and scholars of global and environmental history and political ecology.
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On September 2, 2018, a massive fire devastated the National Museum of Brazil. Founded 200 years ago, the museum is Brazil's oldest scientific institution and one of the largest and most renowned museums in Latin America, with a... more
On September 2, 2018, a massive fire devastated the National Museum of Brazil. Founded 200 years ago, the museum is Brazil's oldest scientific institution and one of the largest and most renowned museums in Latin America, with a collection of 20 million artifacts and specimens. Newspapers around the world have published many articles about this tragic event, and the list of destroyed artifacts is now an almost familiar recitation of mourning: the butterfly and entomology collections, the archives, the Egyptian collection, the mounted dinosaurs, the recording of indigenous voices, the Anthropology Library. Luzia, the oldest human fossil found in the Brazilian territory, is lost. It is a loss not only for Brazilians, but for scientists and scholars around the world
For Brazilian environmental historians, the Museum is a particularly cherished space. It is connected to the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and generations of Brazilian scientists have graduated there. Many environmental historians have explored the archives of the National Museum, taken classes there, studied the paleontology collections, written theses, articles and books about the artifacts and those who collected the precious artifacts, and about what the Museum meant to national science and to the concept of nature in Brazil.
As Brazil is preparing to host the 3rd World Congress of Environmental History in July 2019, in Florianópolis, this loss is deeply felt. In light of this devastating loss, we ask for help from the international community of environmental historians. If you have researched at the National Museum, if you have images of the collections, the artifacts, or any related documents, please send copies to museunacional.ufrj.br/memoria (it is an institutional link.) If your institution would like to support the National Museum of Brazil in a more concrete way, write to falecomdiretor@mn.ufrj.br
Due to these exceptional circumstances, the Organizing Committee of the 3rd World Congress of Environmental History agreed to extend the deadline for proposal submissions until October 1st.
We hope this extension will allow for everyone interested in taking part in proposals for the academic program of this exciting conference.
For Brazilian environmental historians, the Museum is a particularly cherished space. It is connected to the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and generations of Brazilian scientists have graduated there. Many environmental historians have explored the archives of the National Museum, taken classes there, studied the paleontology collections, written theses, articles and books about the artifacts and those who collected the precious artifacts, and about what the Museum meant to national science and to the concept of nature in Brazil.
As Brazil is preparing to host the 3rd World Congress of Environmental History in July 2019, in Florianópolis, this loss is deeply felt. In light of this devastating loss, we ask for help from the international community of environmental historians. If you have researched at the National Museum, if you have images of the collections, the artifacts, or any related documents, please send copies to museunacional.ufrj.br/memoria (it is an institutional link.) If your institution would like to support the National Museum of Brazil in a more concrete way, write to falecomdiretor@mn.ufrj.br
Due to these exceptional circumstances, the Organizing Committee of the 3rd World Congress of Environmental History agreed to extend the deadline for proposal submissions until October 1st.
We hope this extension will allow for everyone interested in taking part in proposals for the academic program of this exciting conference.