Peer-reviewed articles
2025
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Zuker, Fábio. Expulsion by suffocation: soybean plantations, toxicity, and land grabbing in the Brazilian Amazon. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space.
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Fábio Zuker. Destroying the territory, weakening the body: an essay on food, illness and quebranto among the Tupinambá of Lower Tapajós in Northern Brazil. Mana: Studies of Social Anthropology.
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Carolina Levis, Justino Sarmento Rezende, João Paulo Lima Barreto, Silvio Sanches Barreto, Francy Baniwa, Clarinda Sateré-Mawé, Fábio Zuker, Ane Alencar, Miqueias Mugge, Rodrigo Simon de Moraes, Agustín Fuentes, Marina Hirota, Carlos Fausto, João Biehl. Indigenizing Conservation Sciences for a Sustainable Amazon. Science.​​​​​​​​​
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2017​
Fábio Zuker. La forme entre la culture et la nature : Phasmides de Daniel Steegmann Mangrané. ARTELOGIE , v. 10, p. 864,. Available in French
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2016
Fábio Zuker. Apontamentos para uma antropologia política do tempo. Cadernos de Campo (USP), v. 25, p. 57. Available in Portuguese
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In progress
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Zuker, Fábio. (Submitted) Toxic traces: uncertainties, ethnography, and visibility of damage related to the use of pesticides. Revista de Antropologia
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Indigenous knowledge and conservation in the Lower Tapajós (to be submitted to Nature Communications)
The magic of the numbers (to be submitted to the Journal of Political Ecology)
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The political ecology of the Brazilian far-right in the Amazon (to be submitted to Cultural Anthropology)
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Future articles
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Water infrastructure, soil fragility, and food insecurity on the Bananal Island
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Mosquito-borne diseases and climate change in the Bananal Island
Book chapters
Forthcoming
Fábio Zuker. (Forthcoming). “Legalizing Deforestation: The Financial Architecture of Amazon Cattle Laundering.” In The Palgrave Handbook of the International Relations of the Amazon, edited by Christoffer Guldberg, Thomas Froehlich, Thaís Tartalha, and Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau. Forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.
Fábio Zuker, Ana Malmaceda and Lucas Maciel. (Forthcoming). “Crop Wars in Brazil: Towards a Counter-Colonial Ecology.” Accepted for inclusion in an edited volume edited by Banu Subramaniam and Sushmita Chatterjee. Forthcoming from Bloomsbury.
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2022​
Fábio Zuker. “Imagina tudo isso aqui virando soja?”: Monocultura e infraestrutura no Baixo Tapajós. (“Can you imagine all of this becoming soy?”: Monocultures and infrastructure in the Lower Tapajós. In: Infraestrutura para produção de commodities e povos etnicamente diferenciados. Mórula Editorial & Museu Nacional/UFRJ. Available in Portuguese
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2017
Fábio Zuker. A autodemarcação da Terra Indígena Tupinambá no Baixo Tapajós. (The self-demarcation of the Tupinambá Indigenous Land in the Lower Tapajós River Basin) In: Eric Macedo. (Org.). Corpos da Terra - Imagens dos povos indígenas no cinema Brasileiro (catálogo). 1ed.: , 2017, v. , p. 43-. An English version of this text can be found in my book The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon: dispatches from the Brazilian Rainforest
