Rupert Medd
Biographic Data
| ID | 3451993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rupert Medd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rupert |
| FAMILY NAME | Medd |
| SIGNATURE | MEDD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Google (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Eyewitness Accounts during the Putumayo Rubber Boom
Between 1870 and 1915 Peru experienced a rubber-boom, extending into the Putumayo River region in 1893. This huge region of Amazonian forests was controlled by the Peruvian Amazon Company (P. A. Co.). Although Peruvian, they had British company directors and a British-Barbadian workforce. Their methods of extraction generated unimaginable degrees of human and ecological violence. Roger Casement, a British diplomat, was sent on a harrowing mission…
Landscapes and Races in Early Twentieth-Century Peru
Defiant
DefiantDocumenting the Violation of the Natural World by Latin American Reporters Rupert Medd (bio) The emergence from Latin America’s history of colonialism, which took and treated local people and nature as marginalized and exploitable subjects, remains an ongoing struggle as the assault on lands and natural resources intensifies. On the local-global scale, already biosphere integrity and land-system change represent two planetary boundaries th…
Wakas and water, Julio César Tello's spiritual poetics of archaeology
Julio C. Tello, a Peruvian archaeologist, ascertained that the valuable environmental knowledge gained by Peru's pre-Hispanic civilisations equally had contemporary significance for a modernising and industrialising nation. This article explores how his findings on Peru's pre-Hispanic civilisations informed his understanding of their environmental relations, resource use and, furthermore, how he identified himself with some of the national discou…
Eyewitness Accounts during the Putumayo Rubber Boom
Between 1870 and 1915 Peru experienced a rubber-boom, extending into the Putumayo River region in 1893. This huge region of Amazonian forests was controlled by the Peruvian Amazon Company (P. A. Co.). Although Peruvian, they had British company directors and a British-Barbadian workforce. Their methods of extraction generated unimaginable degrees of human and ecological violence. Roger Casement, a British diplomat, was sent on a harrowing mission…
Wakas and water, Julio César Tello's spiritual poetics of archaeology
Julio C. Tello, a Peruvian archaeologist, ascertained that the valuable environmental knowledge gained by Peru's pre-Hispanic civilisations equally had contemporary significance for a modernising and industrialising nation. This article explores how his findings on Peru's pre-Hispanic civilisations informed his understanding of their environmental relations, resource use and, furthermore, how he identified himself with some of the national discou…
Defiant
DefiantDocumenting the Violation of the Natural World by Latin American Reporters Rupert Medd (bio) The emergence from Latin America’s history of colonialism, which took and treated local people and nature as marginalized and exploitable subjects, remains an ongoing struggle as the assault on lands and natural resources intensifies. On the local-global scale, already biosphere integrity and land-system change represent two planetary boundaries th…
Landscapes and Races in Early Twentieth-Century Peru
Eyewitness Accounts during the Putumayo Rubber Boom
Between 1870 and 1915 Peru experienced a rubber-boom, extending into the Putumayo River region in 1893. This huge region of Amazonian forests was controlled by the Peruvian Amazon Company (P. A. Co.). Although Peruvian, they had British company directors and a British-Barbadian workforce. Their methods of extraction generated unimaginable degrees of human and ecological violence. Roger Casement, a British diplomat, was sent on a harrowing mission…
Sociology (3 works) · Amazon rainforest (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Latin American Cultural Politics (2 works) · Latin American history and culture (2 works) · Latin Americans (2 works) · Law (2 works)