The Multiple Amazon

IF 0.9 4区历史学 Q2 AREA STUDIES

Latin American Perspectives Pub Date : 2025-09-28 DOI:10.1177/0094582x251380188

Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, Claudia Horn, Fernando Rugitsky

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Abstract

What is the Amazon? At first sight, the question may seem inconsequential, or even silly. The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, home to millions of species, many of which are still to be catalogued. From a geographical perspective, however, the Amazon is more than the rainforest, encompassing a large region of South America in the basin of the Amazon River, and spanning across eight South American countries and France—the only European power that retains a direct colonial foothold in the region. The sheer size of the Amazon beggars belief. Without denying the immensity of the Amazon, we believe a better way to approach it is by emphasizing not vastness or pristine nature, but spectacular multiplicity. That is, we are interested in the internal variety of ways of life, state policies, and challenges in the region. With COP30 set to take place in Belém, a city in the Brazilian Amazon, the region is once again in the spotlight and the subject of exoticizing narratives. In this context, this special issue of Latin American Perspectives is the first in the journal to ever be entirely dedicated to the Amazon. It does not attempt to offer a totalizing or synthesizing view of the Amazon. Instead, the eleven original articles collected here, alongside a set of literary texts from Amazonian writers, embrace and showcase the multiplicity of approaches, styles, methodologies, imaginations, and narratives that can be built around the Amazon. The articles not only offer analysis of a range of themes, but also include empirical material on different parts of the region in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

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多元化的亚马逊

亚马逊是什么？乍一看，这个问题似乎无关紧要，甚至很愚蠢。亚马逊是世界上最大的热带雨林，是数百万物种的家园，其中许多物种仍有待分类。然而，从地理的角度来看，亚马逊不仅仅是热带雨林，它还包括亚马孙河流域南美洲的大片地区，横跨八个南美国家和法国——唯一一个在该地区保持直接殖民立足点的欧洲大国。亚马逊的规模之大令人难以置信。在不否认亚马逊河辽阔的情况下，我们认为更好的方法不是强调广袤或原始的自然，而是强调壮观的多样性。也就是说，我们对该地区内部各种各样的生活方式、国家政策和挑战感兴趣。随着第三十届联合国气候变化大会即将在巴西亚马逊地区的城市贝尔萨姆举行，该地区再次成为人们关注的焦点，并成为异国情调叙事的主题。在这种背景下，本期《拉丁美洲展望》特刊是该杂志第一期完全以亚马逊为主题的特刊。它并不试图提供一个整体的或综合的亚马逊视图。相反，这里收集的11篇原创文章，以及一系列亚马逊作家的文学作品，拥抱并展示了围绕亚马逊建立的多种方法、风格、方法、想象力和叙事。这些文章不仅提供了一系列主题的分析，还包括巴西、哥伦比亚、厄瓜多尔和秘鲁等地区不同地区的实证材料。

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Latin American Perspectives Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Latin American Perspectives is a theoretical and scholarly journal for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. The journal"s objective is to encourage class analysis of sociocultural realities and political strategies to transform Latin American sociopolitical structures. The journal makes a conscious effort to publish a diversity of political viewpoints, both Marxist and non-Marxist perspectives, that have influenced progressive debates in Latin America.