Marooned
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3914245 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Natascha De Vasconcellos Otoya, Natascha Otoya (0000-0003-4891-1703, Georgetown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 495-511 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2201-1919 • E-ISSN: 2201-1919 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/22011919-11149811 |
| OpenAlex | W4400683097 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
Mr. João de Deus, an elderly Afro-Brazilian man, worked on the ground and contributed to the beginning of the modern Brazilian oil industry. His is a story of environmental hope and personal resilience with roots in the deep past and outcomes that reverberate to the present. João de Deus's story reveals many layers of history beyond human activity, weaving together different temporalities and kinds of hope. This article layers different temporalities-geological, ecological, and human-to emphasize their interconnectedness. As a method, layering various chronological scales helps highlight how they collectively contribute to a complex and nuanced history of a particular individual, community, or place. It considers the simultaneous existence and impact of multiple historical layers, emphasizing the interplay of different historical timescales and historical actors. João de Deus, situated atop ancient geological layers potentially rich in oil, experienced life as a Black man in slavery-era Brazil. Amid the ecological presence of African oil palms and the emerging industrialization of the Maraú Peninsula, he found himself entangled in multiple concurrent histories of different chronological scales, all influencing his destiny
The Prize
The Ecology of Oil
Britain and the Onset of Modernization in Brazil 1850–1914
In the Shadow of Slavery
Maps of Time
Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method
Anxieties of Access
Black Gold, White Crude
Money, Oil and Empire in the Middle East
African Oil Palms, Colonial Socioecological Transformation and the Making of an Afro-Brazilian Landscape in Bahia, Brazil
The cheese and the worms
Microhistoria e Historia Global Microhistory and Global History Micro-história e história global
| Highly cited | No |
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