Claudio De Majo
Biographic Data
| ID | 636817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudio De Majo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudio |
| FAMILY NAME | De Majo |
| SIGNATURE | DE MAJO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4747-9947 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Commons and Bio-Cultural Learning
This article aims to critically contribute to contemporary commons scholarship, using the lenses of the environmental humanities. Linking existing literature on collective action to a vast amount of literature from both the social sciences and the natural sciences could contribute to a new epistemological framework to understand anthropogenic processes of collective action. Both recent biological evolution theories and ontologically oriented phil…
The Anthropocene
The term Anthropocene first appeared in 2000 when scientists Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer attempted to define the environmental effects of anthropic activities. Since then, it has become a widespread, but also controversial, term in the academic community. As environmental discourses increasingly permeate our lives, it has trespassed the borders of scholarly traditions, becoming acknowledged in popular culture. Bearing in mind the pivotal rol…
R. Douglas Hurt, The Green Revolution in the Global South
Valerio Caruso, The Swamp of East Naples
Bio-anthropophagy, or the Anthropocene in the Making
This paper focuses on recent legal innovations that recognise rivers as having rights in countries and cultures of the Global South. These innovations arise from the urgency to look into the interests and health of both rivers and indigenous/local peoples who depend on the resources of rivers for their material and spiritual sustenance. The article proceeds in three sections. In the first section, we outline the main currents in the formal legal …
Creole Ecologies, Feral Customs
As the European colonization of the Americas progressed through territorial occupation and economic exploitation, the motley Atlantic society that emerged from the Columbian Exchange also led to unprecedented social experiments. This article analyzes the consolidation of buccaneers’ society in the island of Hispaniola during the first half of the seventeenth century. Adopting the methodological tools of environmental history – with a particular e…
Para um estudo dos bens comuns no Brasil
O objetivo principal deste artigo é investigar possíveis percursos disciplinares e metodologias para o estudo dos bens comuns no contexto acadêmico brasileiro. Primeiramente, analisamos as práticas coletivas no Brasil desde a perspectiva da História Ambiental, discutindo os chamados bens comuns naturais – ou natural commons – a forma mais antiga de bens comuns. Trazemos essa mesma perspectiva ambiental ao presente, tecendo uma análise crítica sob…
A Geo-historical Analysis of Expanding Soybean Frontiers in the Brazilian Cerrado
Until the 1970s, the Brazilian Cerrado was considered an unsuitable agricultural territory. Logistic and infrastructural issues, combined with soil acidity, made the Cerrado a marginal biome for crop production. However, since the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) was created in 1973, the Cerrado has become a national and international hotspot for the food industry. Such a transformation turned this savannah biome into a landm…
From slash and burn to winemaking
This contribution discusses the early years of Italian immigration in the uplands of southern Brazil, known as the Serra Gaucha (1875–1915). Tracing back early agrarian practices and deforestation techniques of the early settlement years, we investigate the consolidation of this human group in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. In addition, analysing the development of both wood logging and winemaking industries in the region,…
La naturaleza en medio de la crisis y el desarrollo en América Latina
Sandro Dutra e Silva, No Oeste, a terra e o céu. A expansão da fronteira agrícola no Brasil Central
Fire and Power on the River Basin
The aim of this article is to retrace a guerrilla episode that occurred in the Amazon region of Araguaia during the military dictatorship in Brazil (1972-1975), opposing a group of militants from the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) and the National Brazilian Army. Taking advantage of the geographical characteristics of the region, a small group of guerrilla fighters was able to confront a large military contingent for almost three years. As thi…
Nature in the Midst of Crisis and Development in Latin America
Environmental History of Migration (EHM)
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Environments of Italianness
Italian mobility played a fundamental part in the history of the peninsula, since it was a global phenomenon reaching every continent except Antarctica. The Italian diaspora counted over 26 million expatriates who left the country between 1876 and 1976 and, to date, Italy remains one of the states that has contributed the most to the Great European Migration. Although impressive, these figures do not take into account pre-unitary Italian mobiliti…
Towards the Soyacene
This article provides an historical analysis of soybean farming in the most productive region of the world: Latin America's Southern Cone, with particular attention for Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil. Drawing from the premise that current narratives on soybean cultivation and commercialization have mostly focused on quantitative data of a global scope, this article discusses the potential of scholarly narratives informed by the critical …
Genealogy of the Soyacene
This article examines the expansion of soya bean farming in the Latin American Southern Cone, analysing the main historical drives that led to the rise of this Asian-born grain at tropical latitudes.Drawing on the methodological tools of global environmental history, it provides a historical reconstruction of the biotechnological innovations that allowed this expansion and the ecological consequences of this agricultural revolution.After a brief …
Serenella Iovino, Ecocriticism and Italy
Neo-materialism, human evolution and the future of environmental history
The Making of a Pastureland Biome
This article examines the history of leguminous grasses in the Brazilian Cerrado between the early 1950s and early 1970s. The westward expansion of the Brazilian agrarian frontier was a massive ecological transformation, propelled by a transnational process that relied on a series of actors beyond the national borders, most notably the Rockefeller-sponsored IRI research institute. However, as the article demonstrates, this epistemic transformatio…
Gabriella Corona, A Short Environmental History of Italy. Variety and Vulnerability
American vines, European potatoes
In this article we examine the migratory history of German and Italian communities in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.In particular, we explore the divergent trajectories of these two communities in terms of agricultural practices, knowledge, environmental adaptation/transfers and agricultural policies.Adopting the critical tools of evolutionary history, we explore these experiences from a perspective that traditional histor…
Paul Warde, The Invention of Sustainability
1 Living from the Land, c. 1500-1620 Bread 'Man doth not live by bread only.' 1 It is true, and repeated twice more in the Bible to underline the point. 2But when it came to that uttermost necessity of sustaining life, the people of early modern Europe did indeed largely live on bread. 3 This had been true of much of Europe and the Middle East for many, many centuries.Bread might fall in line behind the Word, and arrived on the scene after the ex…
Timothy J. LeCain, The Matter of History
Understanding the Southern Italian commons
In this article, I examine patterns of collective action in the South of Italy, a region where commons scholarship presents several challenges, mainly due to its feudal heritage. In analysing the history of Southern Italian commons, Elinor Ostrom's theories on polycentric governance are adopted. I propose a case study on the mountains of Sila, where collective action was institutionalised through a municipal organisation known as universitas casa…
Towards the Soyacene
This article provides an historical analysis of soybean farming in the most productive region of the world: Latin America's Southern Cone, with particular attention for Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil. Drawing from the premise that current narratives on soybean cultivation and commercialization have mostly focused on quantitative data of a global scope, this article discusses the potential of scholarly narratives informed by the critical …
Paul Warde, The Invention of Sustainability
1 Living from the Land, c. 1500-1620 Bread 'Man doth not live by bread only.' 1 It is true, and repeated twice more in the Bible to underline the point. 2But when it came to that uttermost necessity of sustaining life, the people of early modern Europe did indeed largely live on bread. 3 This had been true of much of Europe and the Middle East for many, many centuries.Bread might fall in line behind the Word, and arrived on the scene after the ex…
Creole Ecologies, Feral Customs
As the European colonization of the Americas progressed through territorial occupation and economic exploitation, the motley Atlantic society that emerged from the Columbian Exchange also led to unprecedented social experiments. This article analyzes the consolidation of buccaneers’ society in the island of Hispaniola during the first half of the seventeenth century. Adopting the methodological tools of environmental history – with a particular e…
A Geo-historical Analysis of Expanding Soybean Frontiers in the Brazilian Cerrado
Until the 1970s, the Brazilian Cerrado was considered an unsuitable agricultural territory. Logistic and infrastructural issues, combined with soil acidity, made the Cerrado a marginal biome for crop production. However, since the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) was created in 1973, the Cerrado has become a national and international hotspot for the food industry. Such a transformation turned this savannah biome into a landm…
La naturaleza en medio de la crisis y el desarrollo en América Latina
Genealogy of the Soyacene
This article examines the expansion of soya bean farming in the Latin American Southern Cone, analysing the main historical drives that led to the rise of this Asian-born grain at tropical latitudes.Drawing on the methodological tools of global environmental history, it provides a historical reconstruction of the biotechnological innovations that allowed this expansion and the ecological consequences of this agricultural revolution.After a brief …
Neo-materialism, human evolution and the future of environmental history
American vines, European potatoes
In this article we examine the migratory history of German and Italian communities in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.In particular, we explore the divergent trajectories of these two communities in terms of agricultural practices, knowledge, environmental adaptation/transfers and agricultural policies.Adopting the critical tools of evolutionary history, we explore these experiences from a perspective that traditional histor…
Assessing Future Challenges for Environmental History in Italy and Beyond
Françoise Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux, La contamination du monde. Une histoire des pollutions à l'âge industriel
Timothy J. LeCain, The Matter of History
Understanding the Southern Italian commons
In this article, I examine patterns of collective action in the South of Italy, a region where commons scholarship presents several challenges, mainly due to its feudal heritage. In analysing the history of Southern Italian commons, Elinor Ostrom's theories on polycentric governance are adopted. I propose a case study on the mountains of Sila, where collective action was institutionalised through a municipal organisation known as universitas casa…
Serenella Iovino, Ecocriticism and Italy
Neo-materialism, human evolution and the future of environmental history
The Making of a Pastureland Biome
This article examines the history of leguminous grasses in the Brazilian Cerrado between the early 1950s and early 1970s. The westward expansion of the Brazilian agrarian frontier was a massive ecological transformation, propelled by a transnational process that relied on a series of actors beyond the national borders, most notably the Rockefeller-sponsored IRI research institute. However, as the article demonstrates, this epistemic transformatio…
Gabriella Corona, A Short Environmental History of Italy. Variety and Vulnerability
American vines, European potatoes
In this article we examine the migratory history of German and Italian communities in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.In particular, we explore the divergent trajectories of these two communities in terms of agricultural practices, knowledge, environmental adaptation/transfers and agricultural policies.Adopting the critical tools of evolutionary history, we explore these experiences from a perspective that traditional histor…
Paul Warde, The Invention of Sustainability
1 Living from the Land, c. 1500-1620 Bread 'Man doth not live by bread only.' 1 It is true, and repeated twice more in the Bible to underline the point. 2But when it came to that uttermost necessity of sustaining life, the people of early modern Europe did indeed largely live on bread. 3 This had been true of much of Europe and the Middle East for many, many centuries.Bread might fall in line behind the Word, and arrived on the scene after the ex…
From slash and burn to winemaking
This contribution discusses the early years of Italian immigration in the uplands of southern Brazil, known as the Serra Gaucha (1875–1915). Tracing back early agrarian practices and deforestation techniques of the early settlement years, we investigate the consolidation of this human group in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. In addition, analysing the development of both wood logging and winemaking industries in the region,…
La naturaleza en medio de la crisis y el desarrollo en América Latina
Sandro Dutra e Silva, No Oeste, a terra e o céu. A expansão da fronteira agrícola no Brasil Central
Fire and Power on the River Basin
The aim of this article is to retrace a guerrilla episode that occurred in the Amazon region of Araguaia during the military dictatorship in Brazil (1972-1975), opposing a group of militants from the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) and the National Brazilian Army. Taking advantage of the geographical characteristics of the region, a small group of guerrilla fighters was able to confront a large military contingent for almost three years. As thi…
Nature in the Midst of Crisis and Development in Latin America
Environmental History of Migration (EHM)
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Environments of Italianness
Italian mobility played a fundamental part in the history of the peninsula, since it was a global phenomenon reaching every continent except Antarctica. The Italian diaspora counted over 26 million expatriates who left the country between 1876 and 1976 and, to date, Italy remains one of the states that has contributed the most to the Great European Migration. Although impressive, these figures do not take into account pre-unitary Italian mobiliti…
Towards the Soyacene
This article provides an historical analysis of soybean farming in the most productive region of the world: Latin America's Southern Cone, with particular attention for Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil. Drawing from the premise that current narratives on soybean cultivation and commercialization have mostly focused on quantitative data of a global scope, this article discusses the potential of scholarly narratives informed by the critical …
Genealogy of the Soyacene
This article examines the expansion of soya bean farming in the Latin American Southern Cone, analysing the main historical drives that led to the rise of this Asian-born grain at tropical latitudes.Drawing on the methodological tools of global environmental history, it provides a historical reconstruction of the biotechnological innovations that allowed this expansion and the ecological consequences of this agricultural revolution.After a brief …
Commons and Bio-Cultural Learning
This article aims to critically contribute to contemporary commons scholarship, using the lenses of the environmental humanities. Linking existing literature on collective action to a vast amount of literature from both the social sciences and the natural sciences could contribute to a new epistemological framework to understand anthropogenic processes of collective action. Both recent biological evolution theories and ontologically oriented phil…
The Anthropocene
The term Anthropocene first appeared in 2000 when scientists Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer attempted to define the environmental effects of anthropic activities. Since then, it has become a widespread, but also controversial, term in the academic community. As environmental discourses increasingly permeate our lives, it has trespassed the borders of scholarly traditions, becoming acknowledged in popular culture. Bearing in mind the pivotal rol…
R. Douglas Hurt, The Green Revolution in the Global South
Valerio Caruso, The Swamp of East Naples
Bio-anthropophagy, or the Anthropocene in the Making
This paper focuses on recent legal innovations that recognise rivers as having rights in countries and cultures of the Global South. These innovations arise from the urgency to look into the interests and health of both rivers and indigenous/local peoples who depend on the resources of rivers for their material and spiritual sustenance. The article proceeds in three sections. In the first section, we outline the main currents in the formal legal …
Creole Ecologies, Feral Customs
As the European colonization of the Americas progressed through territorial occupation and economic exploitation, the motley Atlantic society that emerged from the Columbian Exchange also led to unprecedented social experiments. This article analyzes the consolidation of buccaneers’ society in the island of Hispaniola during the first half of the seventeenth century. Adopting the methodological tools of environmental history – with a particular e…
Political science (14 works) · Geography (11 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (6 works) · Biology (6 works)