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SUMMARY:Urbanisation Without Cities? Hydraulic Infrastructure and the Ecol
 ogies of Vulnerability in the Amazon
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CREATED:20260520T094003Z
DESCRIPTION:On Bananal Island\, in the Brazilian state of Tocantins\, betw
 een the Amazon and the Cerrado savannah\, hydraulic infrastructures built 
 to sustain industrial agriculture have dismantled the ecological condition
 s on which Indigenous life depends. Dykes\, canals\, and irrigation system
 s have altered the region's hydrology so profoundly that rivers have silte
 d up\, fish have vanished\, and soil fertility has collapsed — forcing g
 roups such as the Javaé\, Krahô-Kanela\, and Krahô-Takaywrá to depend 
 on supermarkets for food once grown and caught within their own territorie
 s. The same infrastructures that have deepened food dependency have also c
 reated stagnant water bodies that breed mosquitoes carrying dengue\, Zika\
 , and chikungunya\, urbanising disease patterns in communities far from an
 y city. This talk argues that these transformations constitute a distinct 
 form of infrastructural urbanisation: the extension of urban-industrial me
 tabolic relations into forest territories through hydraulic engineering\, 
 commodity dependence\, and the increased presence of mosquito-borne diseas
 es typically associated with impoverished urban environments. These Indige
 nous territories become neither fully forest nor fully city\, but spaces e
 xposed to the overlapping vulnerabilities of both.
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LOCATION:Kellogg College\, Kellogg College 62 Banbury Road  Oxford Oxfords
 hire OX2 6PN United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Dr Fábio Zuker (GCHU Visiting Global Research Associate\; Researc
 her at the Pensi Institute (José Luiz Setúbal Foundation) and the Univer
 sity of São Paulo)
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