{"title":"Marooned","authors":"Natascha de Vasconcellos Otoya","doi":"10.1215/22011919-11149811","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n 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.","PeriodicalId":46497,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Humanities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Environmental Humanities","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-11149811","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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.
若昂-德-迪乌斯先生是一位年长的非洲裔巴西人,他在当地工作,为巴西现代石油工业的开端做出了贡献。他的故事蕴含着环境的希望和个人的坚韧不拔精神,根植于深厚的过去,其成果回荡至今。若昂-德-迪乌斯的故事揭示了人类活动之外的多层次历史,将不同的时间性和希望交织在一起。本文将不同的时间性--地质、生态和人类--分层,以强调它们之间的相互联系。作为一种方法,将不同的时间尺度分层有助于突出它们如何共同构成特定个人、社区或地方的复杂而微妙的历史。它考虑了多个历史层次的同时存在和影响,强调了不同历史时间尺度和历史参与者的相互作用。若昂-德-迪乌斯(João de Deus)位于可能蕴藏丰富石油的古代地质层之上,在奴隶制时代的巴西经历了黑人的生活。在非洲油棕榈树的生态环境和马拉乌半岛新兴的工业化进程中,他发现自己被卷入了不同时间尺度的多重并存历史中,所有这些都影响着他的命运。