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"The Future of the Amazon": UCSB's Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies hosts international conference

Dozens of scholars, researchers, activists and policymakers from institutions across the globe arrived at UC Santa Barbara for a three-day international conference from Oct. 25-27, aimed at discussing the crucial questions at the heart of geopolitical, economic and environmental futures across the “Global South,” with an emphasis on the Amazon region. The conference, titled “The ....

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The Tropical Silk Road: The Future of China in South America | Edited by Paul Amar, Lisa Rofel, Fernando Brancoli, Maria Amelia Viteri and Consuelo Fernandez

The Tropical Silk Road captures an epochal juncture of two of the world s most transformative processes: the People s Republic of China s rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes. The intersection of these two processes took another step in April 2020, when Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a New Health Silk Road agenda of aid and investment that would wind through South America, extending the Eurasian-African Belt and Road Initiative to the Latin American tropics. How will this new tropical Silk Road shape political alliances, social landscapes, and ecological futures in South America?

Through thirty short essays, this volume brings together an impressive array of contributors, from economists, anthropologists, and political scientists to Black, feminist, and Indigenous community organizers, Chinese stakeholders, environmental activists, and local journalists to offer a pathbrea ....

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