Victor Cova
Biographic Data
| ID | 99271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Cova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Cova |
| SIGNATURE | COVA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Christianity and Christians in Amazonia
Some of the first Europeans to set foot in the Americas were missionaries, and their efforts have been relentless ever since. Early encounters between missionaries and Indigenous Amazonian people were taken in Europe to be a profound historical and theological event, as people tried to place them within a biblical narrative. Missions to Amazonia were an object of fascination, in particular with the Jesuit missions in Paraguay in the sixteenth cen…
An Amazonianist and his history
Thinking the End: Desiring Death and the Undead in the Ecuadorian Upper Amazon
In this article, I argue that imagining the end of ends through narratives about the end of the world and the undead may be mobilised to address a crisis of ends and means. Specifically, I analyze jokes and fantasies that my indigenous Shuar interlocutors from the Ecuadorian Amazon shared with me in the context of protests in favour of the construction of a road on their territory. What brings them together is the operation they perform on previo…
The Road to Taisha: Indigenous Protests for Road Infrastructure in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Ontological Turn
This contribution examines protests by Shuar people in the Ecuadorian Amazon during the summer of 2015 in favour of the construction of a road through their territory. Can the ontological turn help us understand such events? Debates around the ontological turn have hinged around its potential contribution to the analysis of environmental challenges and political conflicts. In this article, I argue that central concepts from the ontological turn –…
The Road to Taisha: Indigenous Protests for Road Infrastructure in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Ontological Turn
This contribution examines protests by Shuar people in the Ecuadorian Amazon during the summer of 2015 in favour of the construction of a road through their territory. Can the ontological turn help us understand such events? Debates around the ontological turn have hinged around its potential contribution to the analysis of environmental challenges and political conflicts. In this article, I argue that central concepts from the ontological turn –…
Thinking the End: Desiring Death and the Undead in the Ecuadorian Upper Amazon
In this article, I argue that imagining the end of ends through narratives about the end of the world and the undead may be mobilised to address a crisis of ends and means. Specifically, I analyze jokes and fantasies that my indigenous Shuar interlocutors from the Ecuadorian Amazon shared with me in the context of protests in favour of the construction of a road on their territory. What brings them together is the operation they perform on previo…
An Amazonianist and his history
The Road to Taisha: Indigenous Protests for Road Infrastructure in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Ontological Turn
This contribution examines protests by Shuar people in the Ecuadorian Amazon during the summer of 2015 in favour of the construction of a road through their territory. Can the ontological turn help us understand such events? Debates around the ontological turn have hinged around its potential contribution to the analysis of environmental challenges and political conflicts. In this article, I argue that central concepts from the ontological turn –…
An Amazonianist and his history
Thinking the End: Desiring Death and the Undead in the Ecuadorian Upper Amazon
In this article, I argue that imagining the end of ends through narratives about the end of the world and the undead may be mobilised to address a crisis of ends and means. Specifically, I analyze jokes and fantasies that my indigenous Shuar interlocutors from the Ecuadorian Amazon shared with me in the context of protests in favour of the construction of a road on their territory. What brings them together is the operation they perform on previo…
Christianity and Christians in Amazonia
Some of the first Europeans to set foot in the Americas were missionaries, and their efforts have been relentless ever since. Early encounters between missionaries and Indigenous Amazonian people were taken in Europe to be a profound historical and theological event, as people tried to place them within a biblical narrative. Missions to Amazonia were an object of fascination, in particular with the Jesuit missions in Paraguay in the sixteenth cen…
Amazon rainforest (3 works) · History (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)