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ID15381
NAMEA A R Ioris
GIVEN NAMESA A R
FAMILY NAMEIoris
SIGNATUREIORIS A A R
AFFILIATIONSCardiff University
ORCID0000-0003-0156-2737
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS67
TOTAL CITATIONS178
AUTHOR COUNT67
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX8
  • Road Blockades During the Pandemic: Indigenous Citizenship and New Territoriality

    Open Access•Romio, Silvia Romio et al.•ARTICLE•Area•2026•References: 26

    In the Peruvian Amazon, the blocking of land and river routes has become an increasingly common strategy among Indigenous groups to exercise active citizenship. Originally a means to express opposition to government decisions—particularly those concerning land tenure, territorial governance and property rights—this form of collective political expression has long shaped Indigenous histories across the Americas throughout the twentieth and twenty‐…

  • Genocide Today: The Guarani-Kaiowa Struggle for Land and Life

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Fourth World Journal•2025

    Although genocide is commonly used today to describe the dramatic challenges indigenous peoples face worldwide, the significance of the Guarani-Kaiowa genocidal experience is not casual and cannot be merely sloganized. The indigenous genocide unfolding in the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso do Sul –“Kaiowcide”– is not just a case of hyperbolic violence or widespread murdering, but it is something qualitatively different from other serious crimes c…

  • Racism and Indifference in Brazil: Anti-indigenous Text, Action, and Sensibility

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Human Arenas•2025

    The article investigates how racist trends have permeated Brazilian history and geography. It discusses the persistence of racism and indifference in the early post-independence and republic periods. Past relations continued to systematically impact the present in an always unfinished process of nation-building based on spurious treatments of socio-spatial differences. The discussion makes use of emblematic literature books and controversial inte…

  • Evaluation of China's marine sustainable development based on PSR and SDG14: Synergy-tradeoff analysis and scenario simulation

    Open Access•Ting Guo, Qinhua Fang et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Impact Assessment…•2025•Cited by: 3•References: 60

  • Indigeneity, land and labour in Paraguay

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Discover Global Society•2024

    This article is focused on the politics of indigeneity, which is an increasingly important concept and a central area of dispute in a globalised world. Indigeneity encapsulates the friction between ethnicity and class identities, which cannot be understood without a full consideration of differences and relationships between landowners, other economic sectors, non-indigenous workers and indigenous people. The text specifically deals with the circ…

  • Uncommon World Production: In Search of Freedom and Recognition

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Societies•2024•References: 2

    The socio-spatiality of capitalist modernity is the embodiment of pressures to eliminate common, spatially adapted institutions in the name of an allegedly more rational world demarcated by the prospect of having everything private and predisposed to be exploited. The vital element of these pressures to legitimise economic inequalities to extract more and more value from labour and nature is the phenomenon of uncommoning. This article has several…

  • Development Research in Flux and in Demand: The Future of Progress in Development Studies

    Open Access•Adam Moe Fejerskov, A A R Ioris et al.•ARTICLE•Progress in Development Studies•2024

  • Hegel's Minor and Major Geographies: Space, Consciousness, and Change

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Antipode•2024•References: 30

    It is still largely ignored that Hegelian dialect can be of great assistance to comprehend the intricacies of the production, experience, and contestation of space. Hegelian philosophy can significantly help to enrich geographical scholarship, although Hegel‐the‐geographer is yet to be discovered and properly recognised. Considering the metabolism of reason, the articulation between the particular and the universal, the externalisation and supers…

  • Agribusiness rent extraction

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•American Journal of Economics and…•2024•References: 14

    The article discusses the political-economy of agribusiness, making use of the category of rent that is considered as a proportion of exchange value diverted from production for the payment to the landowners and, crucially, its class-based allies. Rent is therefore more than just the extraction of value from the use of land, but there is a wider, deeply politicised capture of value from the network of relations that maintain land in production. A…

  • Difference, Indigeneity and Ethnoclass Convergence

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Anthropological Forum•2024•References: 17

    This paper presents an analysis of the politico-economic and ethnic-social basis of difference, paying special attention to the anti-difference violence suffered by indigenous peoples and the concrete experience of the Gurani-Kaiowa in Brazil. Ethnic-social differences and commonalities are here examined through a social sciences reinterpretation of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. In this magistral book, Hegel problematizes and gradually resolve…

  • World out of difference: Relations and consequences

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Philosophy & Social Criticism•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    The article deals with the ontological configuration and political appropriation of difference in modern, capitalist societies. Against fragmented accounts of difference, it is examined the evolution from situations of wide socio-spatial diversity to the gradual instrumentalisation and selective hierarchisation of those elements of difference that can be inserted in market-based relations, whilst the majority of differences are ignored and disreg…

  • The Genocidal Trail of Agrarian Capitalism: Guarani-Kaiowa's Struggle for Survival

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•The Review of Black Political…•2023•References: 9

    Although genocide is an expression commonly used today in relation to the dramatic challenges faces by indigenous peoples around the world, the significance of the Guarani-Kaiowa genocidal experience is not casual and cannot be merely sloganised. The indigenous genocide unfolding in the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso do Sul - Kaiowcide - is not just a case of hyperbolic violence or widespread murdering, but it is something qualitatively different…

  • Indigeneity and Indigenous Politics: Ground-breaking Resources

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Revista de Estudios Sociales•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 15

    The purpose of this article is to relate the very important question of the autonomy of indigenous peoples to freely make decisions about their life with the notion of indigeneity, reconceptualised as a socially constructed and deeply contested resource. Resources are more than mere static assets or quantities of matter waiting to be measured, explored or protected. Something becomes a resource through joint processes of quantification, valuation…

  • Guarani-kaiowa’s political ontology: Singular because common

    A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Cultural Studies•2022

    The article seeks to discuss the political perspective of indigenous peoples in their effort to resist aggression and reclaim back land and opportunities lost to development. The very general and the highly specific condition of indigenous groups in today’s market-based globalization is directly connected with the growing interest of social scientists in the ontological turn, which entails critical interrogations of reductionist assumptions about…

  • Indigenous school education as contested spaces: The Brazilian experience in São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul

    Open Access•A A R Ioris, Flávia Vitor Longo et al.•ARTICLE•The Australian Journal of…•2022

    Indigenous schools are spaces for the convergence of different worldviews and to demonstrate how the creativity of each ethnic group challenges exogenous and established concepts and methodologies. This article examines main trends and pending gaps related to indigenous education in Brazil between the years 2007 and 2019. Issues such as the characterisation of indigenous schools, teachers and students are analysed, with a focus on the evolution o…

  • The reterritorialization and the struggle for water of those affected by the transfer of the São Francisco River in the Brazilian Northeast

    Open Access•Jaqueline Guimarães Santos, Eugenio Avila Pedrozo et al.•ARTICLE•Sociedade & natureza•2022•References: 8

    The implementation of the largest Brazilian hydrological project, theProjeto de Integração do rio São Francisco -PISF (water resources project implemented by the federal government in the Brazilian Northeast), responsible for transfering the river's waters into the semi-arid Northeast region of Brazil, had different effects in the region and caused the deterritorialization of several families. A portion of these families were reterritorialized in…

  • A reterritorialização e a luta pela água dos atingidos pela transposição do rio São Francisco no Nordeste brasileiro

    Open Access•Jaqueline Guimarães Santos, Eugenio Avila Pedrozo et al.•ARTICLE•Sociedade & natureza•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 8

    A implantação do maior empreendimento hídrico brasileiro, o Projeto de Integração do rio São Francisco (PISF), responsável por transpor as águas do rio para o semiárido nordestino, causou diferentes efeitos na região e ocasionou a desterritorialização de diversas famílias. Parte dessas foram reterritorializadas nas 18 vilas rurais espalhadas ao longo do projeto, onde cerca de 845 famílias foram reassentadas. Neste contexto, a pesquisa conduzida n…

  • Desenvolvimento, Ambiente e Agricultura Capitalista: Uma reflexão crítica e necessária / Development, Environment and Capitalist Agriculture: a critical and necessary reflection / Desarrollo, Medio Am…

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•REVISTA NERA•2022

  • Making the Amazon a frontier: Where less space is more

    A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Distinktion Journal of Social…•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 18

    Frontier-making has always been fundamental for the circulation and accumulation of capital. The perennity of frontier-making is not only due to the demand for minerals, land or other resources, or because frontiers represent fresh market opportunities, but crucially because it operates as compensation for the saturation of the existing capitalist relations in core areas. At the frontier, the conventional sequence of time and space is suspended a…

  • Indigeneity and political economy: Class and ethnicity of the Guarani-Kaiowa

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Capital & Class•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 25

    Ontological and identitary questions affecting indigenous peoples are discussed through an assessment of the socio-spatial trajectory of the Guarani-Kaiowa of South America, employing an analytical framework centred around land, labour and ethnicity. These enhanced politico-economic categories provide important entry points for understanding the violence and exploitation perpetrated against indigenous groups, as well as their capacity to reclaim …

  • Socioecological economics of water development in the Brazilian Amazon: Elements for a critical reflection

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Ecological Economics•2020

  • Indigenous Peoples, Land-based Disputes and Strategies of Socio-spatial Resistance at Agricultural Frontiers

    A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Ethnopolitics•2020•Cited by: 7•References: 9

    Frontiers of national development and agricultural expansion constitute spaces of intense interaction, disputes and contestation. The Brazilian economy continues to largely rely on the opening of agribusiness frontiers in the west of country and, similar to what happened in the past, this is a phenomenon shaped by acute racism and discrimination against the Indigenous population. This article is focused on the emblematic experienced by the Guaran…

  • Ontological politics and the struggle for the Guarani-Kaiowa world

    A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Space and Polity•2020•Cited by: 4•References: 25

    Indigenous politics is crucial for rethinking some of the most serious contemporary dilemmas, as in the case of pressing discussions of development, democracy and justice. Those debates are particularly poignant today given the mounting disruptive interventions committed in the name of economic growth and resource management. The article examines the political perspective of Indigenous peoples in their effort to resist aggression and reclaim back…

  • Challenges and contribution of indigenous geography: Learning with and for the Kaiowa-Guarani of South America

    Open Access•A A R Ioris, Tonico Benites et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 8

  • Political agency of indigenous peoples: The Guarani-Kaiowa's fight for survival and recognition

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Vibrant Virtual Brazilian…•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 30

    The article examines the survival strategies and political reactions of indigenous groups in areas of agricultural frontiers that are strongly influenced by cultural symbols, family bonds and land-based responses. It is discussed the unique socio-spatial trajectory of indigenous peoples and, in addition, a typology of the indigenous space is proposed. The analysis is focused on the emblematic example of how frontier making was experienced by the …

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  • Amazon's dead ends: Frontier-making the centre

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2018•Cited by: 17•References: 27

  • Theorizing state-environment relationships: Antinomies of flexibility and legitimacy

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Progress in Human Geography•2014•Cited by: 13•References: 19

    Scholarly work in geography has often fallen short of establishing the politicized connections between socio-ecological pressures, spatial dynamics and the changing patterns of the state apparatus. It is still necessary to better examine the failures of the responses to ecological problems in relation to the underlying politico-ideological factors that constrain state interventions. Environmental governance has been particularly influenced by Heg…

  • The Troubled Waters of Brazil: Nature Commodification and Social Exclusion

    A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Capitalism Nature Socialism•2007•Cited by: 13

    Since the beginning of the 20th century, control over water resources and transformation of the waterscape have been integral to the expansion of industrial and commercial activities in Brazil.1 Th

  • Cracking the nut of agribusiness and global food insecurity: In search of a critical agenda of research

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2015•Cited by: 11•References: 7

  • Applying the Strategic‐Relational Approach to Urban Political Ecology: The Water Management Problems of the Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Antipode•2012•Cited by: 11•References: 37

    The complexity of water management requires an explanatory framework that is able to capture the multidimensionality of the relations between nature and society increasingly mediated by the state. The evolution of water problems in the Baixada Fluminense, a wetland area situated to the north of Rio de Janeiro, provides a paradigmatic example of how water management becomes incorporated into the fluid politics between state, nature and society. Th…

  • The geography of multiple scarcities: Urban development and water problems in Lima, Peru

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2011•Cited by: 11•References: 11

  • Political agency of indigenous peoples: The Guarani-Kaiowa's fight for survival and recognition

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Vibrant Virtual Brazilian…•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 30

    The article examines the survival strategies and political reactions of indigenous groups in areas of agricultural frontiers that are strongly influenced by cultural symbols, family bonds and land-based responses. It is discussed the unique socio-spatial trajectory of indigenous peoples and, in addition, a typology of the indigenous space is proposed. The analysis is focused on the emblematic example of how frontier making was experienced by the …

  • The neoliberalization of water in Lima, Peru

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2012•Cited by: 9•References: 28

  • Indigenous Peoples, Land-based Disputes and Strategies of Socio-spatial Resistance at Agricultural Frontiers

    A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Ethnopolitics•2020•Cited by: 7•References: 9

    Frontiers of national development and agricultural expansion constitute spaces of intense interaction, disputes and contestation. The Brazilian economy continues to largely rely on the opening of agribusiness frontiers in the west of country and, similar to what happened in the past, this is a phenomenon shaped by acute racism and discrimination against the Indigenous population. This article is focused on the emblematic experienced by the Guaran…

  • The Adaptive Nature of the Neoliberal State and the State-led Neoliberalisation of Nature: Unpacking the Political Economy of Water in Lima, Peru

    A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•New Political Economy•2013•Cited by: 7•References: 22

    The neoliberalisation of water constitutes an emblematic illustration of the enduring encroachment of neoliberalism upon nature. Previous studies in Latin America have examined the transition from Keynesian water utilities to the neoliberal provisions of water services, but paid less attention to the adaptability of the state apparatus and the systematic adjustments required to sustain neoliberalising strategies. Addressing this gap in the litera…

  • Places of Agribusiness: Displacement, Replacement, and Misplacement in Mato Grosso, Brazil

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Geographical Review•2017•Cited by: 6•References: 32

    This article investigates the spatial logic and different moments of place-making \nduring the expansion of Mato Grosso’s agribusiness frontier, in the southern section \nof the Brazilian Amazon. The analysis is informed by three conceptual concerns: the tensions \nbetween representation and experience, between humanist and class-based explanations, \nand between the intensity of place-making and place-framing. Empirical results \nfrom a qualitat…

  • Rent of agribusiness in the Amazon: A case study from Mato Grosso

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Land Use Policy•2016•Cited by: 5•References: 24

  • The paradox of poverty in rich ecosystems: Impoverishment and development in the Amazon of Brazil and Bolivia

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Geographical Journal•2016•Cited by: 5•References: 44

    The article offers an examination of poverty and development in the Amazon, moving beyond the conventional view which places the blame on infrastructure deficiencies, economic isolation or institutional failures. It examines synergistically connected processes that form the persistent poverty-making geography of the Amazon region. The discussion is based on qualitative research conducted in two emblematic areas in Bolivia (Pando) and Brazil (Pará…

  • Ontological politics and the struggle for the Guarani-Kaiowa world

    A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Space and Polity•2020•Cited by: 4•References: 25

    Indigenous politics is crucial for rethinking some of the most serious contemporary dilemmas, as in the case of pressing discussions of development, democracy and justice. Those debates are particularly poignant today given the mounting disruptive interventions committed in the name of economic growth and resource management. The article examines the political perspective of Indigenous peoples in their effort to resist aggression and reclaim back…

  • Challenges and contribution of indigenous geography: Learning with and for the Kaiowa-Guarani of South America

    Open Access•A A R Ioris, Tonico Benites et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 8

  • Seeding a narrow future and harvesting an exclusionary past: The contradictions and future scenarios of agro-neoliberalism in Brazil

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Futures•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 28

  • Evaluation of China's marine sustainable development based on PSR and SDG14: Synergy-tradeoff analysis and scenario simulation

    Open Access•Ting Guo, Qinhua Fang et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Impact Assessment…•2025•Cited by: 3•References: 60

  • The politico‐ecological economy of neoliberal agribusiness: Displacement, financialisation and mystification

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Area•2016•Cited by: 3•References: 23

    The intricacy of global agri‐food business today is, at once, product and also co‐producer of the hegemonic modernisation of capitalism according to the discourse and the strategies of neoliberalism. The expansion of neoliberal agribusiness, situated in the wider context of the politico‐ecological economy of contemporary capitalism, is considered with the assistance of an original analytical framework structured around three explanatory categorie…

  • Environmental communication in the Information Age: Institutional barriers and opportunities in the provision of river data to the general public

    Open Access•Koen Arts, A A R Ioris et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Science & Policy•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 8

    In an era of increased human pressure on planet Earth, sound environmental governance regimes are more important than ever. Digital technologies are increasingly turned to by environmental regulators to aid governance and communication. We examine the ‘behind the scenes’ institutional dynamics of a public body in its digital information provision (specifically dynamic river level information). Based on in-depth interviews with staff across a larg…

  • Environmental Governance at the Core of Statecraft: Unresolved Questions and Inbuilt Tensions

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Geography Compass•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 29

    The state is not only a main environmental player, but its involvement in environmental regulation has major consequences for the dynamics of statecraft. Environmental governance is the expression that better summarises the ongoing transformations of state interventions and the search for more flexible, adaptive approaches. A growing body of scholarly work has tried to establish the connections between the failures of environmental governance and…

  • The Brazilian Developmentalist State in Historical Perspective: Revisiting the 1950s in Light of Today's Challenges

    Rafael Ioris, Rafael R Ioris et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Iberian and Latin…•2013•Cited by: 3

    The paper assesses the debates between influential writers and decision makers involved in the fast-paced industrialization Brazil embarked upon in the 1950s. Although the period was shaped by high rates of economic growth championed by charismatic nationalist leaders, disagreements pertaining to the role and configuration of the developmental state gave rise to a hybrid agenda of development which combined both liberalizing and interventionist s…

  • Assessing development and the idea of development in the 1950s in Brazil

    Open Access•Rafael Ioris, Rafael Rossotto Ioris et al.•ARTICLE•Brazilian Journal of Political…•2013•Cited by: 3•References: 15

    The decade of 1950s was a crucial period of the industrialization of the Brazilian economy. The dominant school of thought was the national-developmentalism, which was not restricted to the sphere of economic production but also encompassed political and socio-cultural processes of change. Combining repression, persuasion and paternalism, the national state took a significantly political and economic responsibility in the social, material and sym…

  • O que é justiça ambiental

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Ambiente & sociedade•2009•Cited by: 3

    Se é inegável que as questões do

  • Colombia's Fractured History and Continued Challenges following the Havana Accord

    Open Access•Rafael Ioris, A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Journal of Peacebuilding &…•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 4

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  • Encroachment and entrenchment of agro-neoliberalism in the Centre-West of Brazil

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 21

  • The Troubled Waters of Brazil: Nature Commodification and Social Exclusion

    A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Capitalism Nature Socialism•2007•Cited by: 13

    Since the beginning of the 20th century, control over water resources and transformation of the waterscape have been integral to the expansion of industrial and commercial activities in Brazil.1 Th

  • Os limites políticos de uma reforma incompleta: A implementação da lei dos recursos hídricos na Bacia do Paraíba do Sul

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Revista Brasileira de Estudos…•2008•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    Na última década, o uso e a conservação dos recursos hídricos no Brasil têm sido objeto de um amplo processo de reformas e reorganização institucional. A experiência da BaciaHidrográfica do Rio Paraíba do Sul foi selecionada como um exemplo paradigmático das reformas institucionais em andamento no país. Fazendo uso de métodos qualitativos de pesquisa, foram analisados os objetivos e as deficiências da nova decisória. O estudo identificou, como li…

  • Desenvolvimento nacional e gestão de recursos hídricos no Brasil

    Open Access•A A R Ioris, Antonio Ioris•ARTICLE•Revista crítica de ciências…•2009•Cited by: 2•References: 16

    A gestão de recursos hídricos está relacionada não somente a práticas e tecnologias diretamente ligadas à distribuição, uso e conservação de água, mas também a questões mais profundas de desenvolvimento nacional e representação política. A experiência brasileira, desde o período colonial até à recente liberalização económica, demonstra vividamente essa complexidade histórico-geográfica. Durante a fase desenvolvimentista, caracterizada pela substi…

  • O que é justiça ambiental

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Ambiente & sociedade•2009•Cited by: 3

    Se é inegável que as questões do

  • The geography of multiple scarcities: Urban development and water problems in Lima, Peru

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2011•Cited by: 11•References: 11

  • Enterprise and Politics: The Narrow Course of the Water Services of Lima, Peru

    Open Access•A A R Ioris, Antonio Ioris•ARTICLE•EIAL - Estudios Interdisciplinarios…•2012

    The attainment of universal and reliable public services constitutes and old promise of Latin American governments since the early days of independence. After nearly two centuries of history, however, the situation is still one of marked inequalities, patchy coverage and controversial handling of public matters. Despite political agreement about the importance of public water services, the region is unlikely to achieve the Millennium Development …

  • The persistent water problems of L ima, P eru: Neoliberalism, institutional failures and social inequalities

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Singapore Journal of Tropical…•2012

    The contingent relation between water governance and nature neoliberalization has defined most interventions in the water sector around the world in recent years. In the case of the P eruvian capital L ima, the provision of water and sanitation services in the last two decades has been the object of investments and institutional reforms strongly influenced by economic neoliberalism. This essay examines the evolution of these neoliberalizing tende…

  • Scarcity, Neoliberalism and the ‘Water Business’ in Lima, Peru

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Human Geography•2012•Cited by: 1•References: 9

    Water scarcity is a widespread phenomenon that still affects many cities and settlements around the world. Situations of scarce water resources are not external to society, but are directly and indirectly caused by deliberate attitudes towards nature and society. Conditions of water scarcity go beyond the physical insufficiency of resources to vividly contain the long-term inadequacy of social institutions. In the case of Lima, the capital of Per…

  • Applying the Strategic‐Relational Approach to Urban Political Ecology: The Water Management Problems of the Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Antipode•2012•Cited by: 11•References: 37

    The complexity of water management requires an explanatory framework that is able to capture the multidimensionality of the relations between nature and society increasingly mediated by the state. The evolution of water problems in the Baixada Fluminense, a wetland area situated to the north of Rio de Janeiro, provides a paradigmatic example of how water management becomes incorporated into the fluid politics between state, nature and society. Th…

  • The neoliberalization of water in Lima, Peru

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2012•Cited by: 9•References: 28

  • The Adaptive Nature of the Neoliberal State and the State-led Neoliberalisation of Nature: Unpacking the Political Economy of Water in Lima, Peru

    A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•New Political Economy•2013•Cited by: 7•References: 22

    The neoliberalisation of water constitutes an emblematic illustration of the enduring encroachment of neoliberalism upon nature. Previous studies in Latin America have examined the transition from Keynesian water utilities to the neoliberal provisions of water services, but paid less attention to the adaptability of the state apparatus and the systematic adjustments required to sustain neoliberalising strategies. Addressing this gap in the litera…

  • The prospects for the water management framework in the Douro, Portugal

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•European Urban and Regional Studies•2013•References: 6

    The implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) has represented a unique opportunity to enhance the regulatory capacity of public agencies and restore the ecological condition of water bodies in the European Union. This paper examines the experience of translating the new Directive into practical policy-making in the Douro River Catchment in the north of Portugal. Regional development and the evolution of water management are initially …

  • The value of water values: Departing from geography towards an interdisciplinary synthesis

    A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Geografiska Annaler Series B…•2013•Cited by: 2•References: 21

    Water valuation represents both an opportunity and a challenge for interdisciplinary scholarly research, given that it can mobilize academic work beyond unnecessary cleavages between physical and social sciences. The article revisits the most common valuation approaches – namely, water as an economic resource, entangled in commodification strategies and embedded in cultural heritages – as important, but incomplete, considerations of the multitude…

  • The Brazilian Developmentalist State in Historical Perspective: Revisiting the 1950s in Light of Today's Challenges

    Rafael Ioris, Rafael R Ioris et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Iberian and Latin…•2013•Cited by: 3

    The paper assesses the debates between influential writers and decision makers involved in the fast-paced industrialization Brazil embarked upon in the 1950s. Although the period was shaped by high rates of economic growth championed by charismatic nationalist leaders, disagreements pertaining to the role and configuration of the developmental state gave rise to a hybrid agenda of development which combined both liberalizing and interventionist s…

  • Assessing development and the idea of development in the 1950s in Brazil

    Open Access•Rafael Ioris, Rafael Rossotto Ioris et al.•ARTICLE•Brazilian Journal of Political…•2013•Cited by: 3•References: 15

    The decade of 1950s was a crucial period of the industrialization of the Brazilian economy. The dominant school of thought was the national-developmentalism, which was not restricted to the sphere of economic production but also encompassed political and socio-cultural processes of change. Combining repression, persuasion and paternalism, the national state took a significantly political and economic responsibility in the social, material and sym…

  • The Political Ecology of the State: The basis and the evolution of environmental statehood

    A A R Ioris•BOOK•Political Ecology of the State•2014

    The contemporary state is not only the main force behind environmental change, but the reactions to environmental problems have played a crucial role in the modernisation of the state apparatus, especially because of its mediatory role. The Political Ecology of the State is the first book to critically assess the philosophical basis of environmental statehood and regulation, addressing the emergence and evolution of environmental regulation from …

  • Theorizing state-environment relationships: Antinomies of flexibility and legitimacy

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Progress in Human Geography•2014•Cited by: 13•References: 19

    Scholarly work in geography has often fallen short of establishing the politicized connections between socio-ecological pressures, spatial dynamics and the changing patterns of the state apparatus. It is still necessary to better examine the failures of the responses to ecological problems in relation to the underlying politico-ideological factors that constrain state interventions. Environmental governance has been particularly influenced by Heg…

  • The Urban Political Ecology of Post-industrial Scottish Towns: Examining Greengairs and Ravenscraig

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2014•References: 34

    Urban ecological politics is shaped by both moments of concerted action and more silent perceptions and responses. Instead of only being evident in situations of organised protest, the politics of urban ecology is also manifested, in material and symbolic terms, in the daily life of the residents. The fragmentation of urban political ecology turns out to be an important element in the affirmation of post-political forms of urban governance. Those…

  • Environmental Governance at the Core of Statecraft: Unresolved Questions and Inbuilt Tensions

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Geography Compass•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 29

    The state is not only a main environmental player, but its involvement in environmental regulation has major consequences for the dynamics of statecraft. Environmental governance is the expression that better summarises the ongoing transformations of state interventions and the search for more flexible, adaptive approaches. A growing body of scholarly work has tried to establish the connections between the failures of environmental governance and…

  • Água, cobrança e commodity: A geografia dos recursos hídricos no Brasil

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Terra Livre•2015

    Durante toda a história brasileira, mas principalmente no último século, a atividade econômica levou a progressivo estranhamento entre sociedade e meio ambiente, ao mesmo tempo que cristalizou uma situação de grave injustiça social. A industrialização da economia foi responsável por consolidar um modelo de produção que se beneficia da exploração dos recursos hídricos e da exclusão social como ferramentas de acumulação de capital. Crescentes nívei…

  • Environmental communication in the Information Age: Institutional barriers and opportunities in the provision of river data to the general public

    Open Access•Koen Arts, A A R Ioris et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Science & Policy•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 8

    In an era of increased human pressure on planet Earth, sound environmental governance regimes are more important than ever. Digital technologies are increasingly turned to by environmental regulators to aid governance and communication. We examine the ‘behind the scenes’ institutional dynamics of a public body in its digital information provision (specifically dynamic river level information). Based on in-depth interviews with staff across a larg…

  • Cracking the nut of agribusiness and global food insecurity: In search of a critical agenda of research

    Open Access•A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2015•Cited by: 11•References: 7

  • Conflitos sociopolíticos, recursos hídricos e programa um milhão de cisternas na região semiárida da Paraíba

    Open Access•Jairo Bezerra Silva, Lemuel Dourado Guerra et al.•ARTICLE•Novos Cadernos NAEA•2015

    Nosso objetivo principal neste artigo é o de analisar a implementação das tecnologias de cisternas de placas na região semiárida da Paraíba, com foco no Programa Um Milhão de Cisternas (P1MC), discutindo em que medida o mesmo contribuiu para a sustentabilidade hídrica para as comunidades rurais atingidas. Nosso objeto empírico foi o município de Catolé do Rocha-PB, sendo feita entrevistas com beneficiários e coordenadores do programa analisado. C…

  • Policy dimensions of land-use change in peri-urban floodplains: The case of Paraty

    Open Access•José Barbedo, Marcelo Miguez et al.•ARTICLE•Conservation Ecology•2015•Cited by: 1

    Barbedo, J., M. Miguez, D. Van der Horst, P. Carneiro, P. Amis, and A. Ioris. 2015. Policy dimensions of land-use change in peri-urban floodplains: the case of Paraty. Ecology and Society 20(1): 5. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07126-200105

  • The Production of Poverty and the Poverty of Production in the Amazon: Reflections from Those at the Sharp End of Development

    A A R Ioris•ARTICLE•Capitalism Nature Socialism•2015•Cited by: 1•References: 20

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