A Penfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 38271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Penfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Penfield |
| SIGNATURE | PENFIELD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5450-5547 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Forms of land grabbing in the Amazon: From land deals to illegal land appropriation
The takeover of land is widely known as ‘land grabbing’. This is a common form of land-related conflict, mostly associated with large-scale land acquisition. However, the term has also been used to describe similar, yet also distinct forms of land control in the Amazon region. Through a literature-based analysis, this article explores the various forms of land grabbing studied in Amazonia. We identified two main categories: ‘land deals’, which in…
Electricity access in the Brazilian Amazon: Governance and lived experience
This paper explores the lived experience of top-down universal electricity access governance among three remote communities in the Brazilian Amazon. Through interviews and surveys among participating households, we analyzed and compared access to education, health services, and income through the lens of energy access. While the three case study communities should be beneficiaries of the “Luz para Todos” universal electricity access program, our …
When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories
[No abstract]
Scattered Things: Virtue Ethics and Objectness in Indigenous Amazonia
This article seeks to extend the enduring focus on the body and bodily substance in Amazonia, which have historically eclipsed other forms of relatedness and ethical practices. Among the Venezuelan Sanema, morality is enacted predominantly through manufactured items rather than solely corporeal expressions of relatedness. While artefacts of all forms are receiving increased recognition in the region, they are often explored within a non-dualist f…
Introduction: Resource Engagements: Experiencing Extraction in Latin America
Peer reviewed
The wild inside out: Fluid infrastructure in an Amazonian mining region
Nestled in the hinterlands of Amazonia, informal gold mining continues largely unnoticed. The ‘wild’ landscapes that prospectors must negotiate in order to reach and work in these far‐flung mine sites consist of unruly forests, raging waterfalls and unpredictable waterways, locales that restrict and confound formal infrastructural development. In such terrains, prospectors must devise innovative ‘fluid infrastructures’ that allow the mine's conti…
Fuel of fear and force: Gasoline's Energetic Power and Its Entanglement in Composite Ethics
Energy is far more than a resource exploited by states and corporations. Yet, at the level of consumption it is generally thought to be a difficult phenomenon to examine because it is so familiar that we barely notice its role in our lives; or at the very least, its production becomes obscured by this pragmatic daily engagement. The other side to the story - the one in which energy is a provision distributed to and experienced by people in intima…
Dodged debts and the submissive predator: Perspectives on Amazonian relations of dependence
This article explores the nature of inter-ethnic asymmetry and the dynamic of long-term dependence in Amazonia. Drawing on the case of the Sanema and their neighbouring Ye'kwana, it seeks to gain a deeper understanding of submission and indebtedness with a view to rethinking where the power might lie in such relationships. The association between the two groups, I argue, is motivated by the Sanema's pursuit of manufactured items, access to which …
Maneuvering for Paper: Physical and Social Experiences of Bureaucracy in Venezuelan Amazonia
El presente artículo explora un caso de aprendizaje de la burocracia venezolana, que los Sanema experimentan a través de su participación en los proyectos sociales de la Revolución Bolivariana de Chávez. Este análisis se enfoca en la capacidad de maniobra que genera el papeleo burocrático, y contribuye a la comprensión de las formas de movilidad y la experiencia del Estado de manera somática en la Amazonía contemporánea. Los nuevos patrones de mo…
Dodged debts and the submissive predator: Perspectives on Amazonian relations of dependence
This article explores the nature of inter-ethnic asymmetry and the dynamic of long-term dependence in Amazonia. Drawing on the case of the Sanema and their neighbouring Ye'kwana, it seeks to gain a deeper understanding of submission and indebtedness with a view to rethinking where the power might lie in such relationships. The association between the two groups, I argue, is motivated by the Sanema's pursuit of manufactured items, access to which …
Maneuvering for Paper: Physical and Social Experiences of Bureaucracy in Venezuelan Amazonia
El presente artículo explora un caso de aprendizaje de la burocracia venezolana, que los Sanema experimentan a través de su participación en los proyectos sociales de la Revolución Bolivariana de Chávez. Este análisis se enfoca en la capacidad de maniobra que genera el papeleo burocrático, y contribuye a la comprensión de las formas de movilidad y la experiencia del Estado de manera somática en la Amazonía contemporánea. Los nuevos patrones de mo…
Scattered Things: Virtue Ethics and Objectness in Indigenous Amazonia
This article seeks to extend the enduring focus on the body and bodily substance in Amazonia, which have historically eclipsed other forms of relatedness and ethical practices. Among the Venezuelan Sanema, morality is enacted predominantly through manufactured items rather than solely corporeal expressions of relatedness. While artefacts of all forms are receiving increased recognition in the region, they are often explored within a non-dualist f…
Introduction: Resource Engagements: Experiencing Extraction in Latin America
Peer reviewed
Fuel of fear and force: Gasoline's Energetic Power and Its Entanglement in Composite Ethics
Energy is far more than a resource exploited by states and corporations. Yet, at the level of consumption it is generally thought to be a difficult phenomenon to examine because it is so familiar that we barely notice its role in our lives; or at the very least, its production becomes obscured by this pragmatic daily engagement. The other side to the story - the one in which energy is a provision distributed to and experienced by people in intima…
Maneuvering for Paper: Physical and Social Experiences of Bureaucracy in Venezuelan Amazonia
El presente artículo explora un caso de aprendizaje de la burocracia venezolana, que los Sanema experimentan a través de su participación en los proyectos sociales de la Revolución Bolivariana de Chávez. Este análisis se enfoca en la capacidad de maniobra que genera el papeleo burocrático, y contribuye a la comprensión de las formas de movilidad y la experiencia del Estado de manera somática en la Amazonía contemporánea. Los nuevos patrones de mo…
Dodged debts and the submissive predator: Perspectives on Amazonian relations of dependence
This article explores the nature of inter-ethnic asymmetry and the dynamic of long-term dependence in Amazonia. Drawing on the case of the Sanema and their neighbouring Ye'kwana, it seeks to gain a deeper understanding of submission and indebtedness with a view to rethinking where the power might lie in such relationships. The association between the two groups, I argue, is motivated by the Sanema's pursuit of manufactured items, access to which …
The wild inside out: Fluid infrastructure in an Amazonian mining region
Nestled in the hinterlands of Amazonia, informal gold mining continues largely unnoticed. The ‘wild’ landscapes that prospectors must negotiate in order to reach and work in these far‐flung mine sites consist of unruly forests, raging waterfalls and unpredictable waterways, locales that restrict and confound formal infrastructural development. In such terrains, prospectors must devise innovative ‘fluid infrastructures’ that allow the mine's conti…
Fuel of fear and force: Gasoline's Energetic Power and Its Entanglement in Composite Ethics
Energy is far more than a resource exploited by states and corporations. Yet, at the level of consumption it is generally thought to be a difficult phenomenon to examine because it is so familiar that we barely notice its role in our lives; or at the very least, its production becomes obscured by this pragmatic daily engagement. The other side to the story - the one in which energy is a provision distributed to and experienced by people in intima…
Introduction: Resource Engagements: Experiencing Extraction in Latin America
Peer reviewed
Scattered Things: Virtue Ethics and Objectness in Indigenous Amazonia
This article seeks to extend the enduring focus on the body and bodily substance in Amazonia, which have historically eclipsed other forms of relatedness and ethical practices. Among the Venezuelan Sanema, morality is enacted predominantly through manufactured items rather than solely corporeal expressions of relatedness. While artefacts of all forms are receiving increased recognition in the region, they are often explored within a non-dualist f…
When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories
[No abstract]
Forms of land grabbing in the Amazon: From land deals to illegal land appropriation
The takeover of land is widely known as ‘land grabbing’. This is a common form of land-related conflict, mostly associated with large-scale land acquisition. However, the term has also been used to describe similar, yet also distinct forms of land control in the Amazon region. Through a literature-based analysis, this article explores the various forms of land grabbing studied in Amazonia. We identified two main categories: ‘land deals’, which in…
Electricity access in the Brazilian Amazon: Governance and lived experience
This paper explores the lived experience of top-down universal electricity access governance among three remote communities in the Brazilian Amazon. Through interviews and surveys among participating households, we analyzed and compared access to education, health services, and income through the lens of energy access. While the three case study communities should be beneficiaries of the “Luz para Todos” universal electricity access program, our …
Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Amazon rainforest (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Mining and Resource Management (3 works)