Shelly Annette Biesel
Biographic Data
| ID | 229291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shelly Annette Biesel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shelly Annette |
| FAMILY NAME | Biesel |
| SIGNATURE | BIESEL S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anthropology, University of Maine |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2252-2136 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reclaiming the shoreline
Coastal territories are critical for confronting the challenges of climate change, yet they remain disproportionately subject to overdevelopment, ecological degradation, and social displacement. In Brazil, national infrastructure programs like the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) and the Merchant Marine Fund have intensified these dynamics by promoting industrial port expansion at the expense of coastal Afro-descendant and Indigenous communities…
Cheia de axé (full of axé)
This article explores how Afro-Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state-led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large-scale economic development program, known as the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC, in Portuguese), which enabled …
Racialized land tenure and the colonial present
The article introduces the concept of racialized land tenure to illuminate how colonial land governance systems in Brazil continue to shape dispossession and ecological degradation in post-colonial contexts. Drawing from historical and ethnographic research conducted in 2018, 2020, and 2021 in the Afro-Brazilian coastal communities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, we trace how residents-many of whom have lived as posseiros (squatters) on f…
When disinformation makes sense
Recent scholarship indicates that populist rhetoric can profoundly shape commonsense understandings of global energy crises. While scholars often depict rural, working-class communities as objects of right-wing disinformation, posttruths, and alternative facts, how rural communities interpret or experience populist narratives is far from adequately understood. This research examines the recent coal industry recession in coal-producing areas of Ap…
When disinformation makes sense
Recent scholarship indicates that populist rhetoric can profoundly shape commonsense understandings of global energy crises. While scholars often depict rural, working-class communities as objects of right-wing disinformation, posttruths, and alternative facts, how rural communities interpret or experience populist narratives is far from adequately understood. This research examines the recent coal industry recession in coal-producing areas of Ap…
Racialized land tenure and the colonial present
The article introduces the concept of racialized land tenure to illuminate how colonial land governance systems in Brazil continue to shape dispossession and ecological degradation in post-colonial contexts. Drawing from historical and ethnographic research conducted in 2018, 2020, and 2021 in the Afro-Brazilian coastal communities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, we trace how residents-many of whom have lived as posseiros (squatters) on f…
When disinformation makes sense
Recent scholarship indicates that populist rhetoric can profoundly shape commonsense understandings of global energy crises. While scholars often depict rural, working-class communities as objects of right-wing disinformation, posttruths, and alternative facts, how rural communities interpret or experience populist narratives is far from adequately understood. This research examines the recent coal industry recession in coal-producing areas of Ap…
Cheia de axé (full of axé)
This article explores how Afro-Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state-led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large-scale economic development program, known as the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC, in Portuguese), which enabled …
Racialized land tenure and the colonial present
The article introduces the concept of racialized land tenure to illuminate how colonial land governance systems in Brazil continue to shape dispossession and ecological degradation in post-colonial contexts. Drawing from historical and ethnographic research conducted in 2018, 2020, and 2021 in the Afro-Brazilian coastal communities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, we trace how residents-many of whom have lived as posseiros (squatters) on f…
Reclaiming the shoreline
Coastal territories are critical for confronting the challenges of climate change, yet they remain disproportionately subject to overdevelopment, ecological degradation, and social displacement. In Brazil, national infrastructure programs like the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) and the Merchant Marine Fund have intensified these dynamics by promoting industrial port expansion at the expense of coastal Afro-descendant and Indigenous communities…
Aeronautics (1 work) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Coastal and Marine Management (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Corporate governance (1 work) · Disinformation (1 work) · Economic Justice (1 work) · Economics (1 work)