Chris N Lesser
Biographic Data
| ID | 167419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris N Lesser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris N |
| FAMILY NAME | Lesser |
| SIGNATURE | LESSER C N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Geography University of California Berkeley USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Paying Up
This article describes the mechanisms by which the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority (PRHTA), a state agency created “para dar al pueblo las mejores carreteras” (to give the people the best highways), has exacerbated uneven resource distribution in Puerto Rico. The PRHTA has functioned as a conduit for regressive restructuring—the work of building financial and physical infrastructures that transfer public wealth to elites. The fu…
Against the grain
This article considers how the construction practices of marginalized communities in Rio de Janeiro link the provision of essential housing to distant forest environments and markets for wood building materials. As elsewhere in Brazil, many families without access to real estate markets have built their own homes using locally available materials, a right protected by the 1988 Constitution and federal law. Today, these houses are typically built …
"Another "education by stone
Brazilian law protects environments understood to be the remnants of historical ecologies. This article uses oral histories, silicate plant fossils, and stable isotopes to excavate one such protected fragment of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Located on a former plantation in the Paraíba Valley of Rio de Janeiro, a region central to state and market formation, and to Atlantic slavery in the nineteenth century, this "forest" contains ecological histori…
"Another "education by stone
Brazilian law protects environments understood to be the remnants of historical ecologies. This article uses oral histories, silicate plant fossils, and stable isotopes to excavate one such protected fragment of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Located on a former plantation in the Paraíba Valley of Rio de Janeiro, a region central to state and market formation, and to Atlantic slavery in the nineteenth century, this "forest" contains ecological histori…
"Another "education by stone
Brazilian law protects environments understood to be the remnants of historical ecologies. This article uses oral histories, silicate plant fossils, and stable isotopes to excavate one such protected fragment of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Located on a former plantation in the Paraíba Valley of Rio de Janeiro, a region central to state and market formation, and to Atlantic slavery in the nineteenth century, this "forest" contains ecological histori…
Against the grain
This article considers how the construction practices of marginalized communities in Rio de Janeiro link the provision of essential housing to distant forest environments and markets for wood building materials. As elsewhere in Brazil, many families without access to real estate markets have built their own homes using locally available materials, a right protected by the 1988 Constitution and federal law. Today, these houses are typically built …
Paying Up
This article describes the mechanisms by which the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority (PRHTA), a state agency created “para dar al pueblo las mejores carreteras” (to give the people the best highways), has exacerbated uneven resource distribution in Puerto Rico. The PRHTA has functioned as a conduit for regressive restructuring—the work of building financial and physical infrastructures that transfer public wealth to elites. The fu…
Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Legislation (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)