Academic Posters
Here are some academic posters I have made for events at Stanford.
Categories: Graphic Design, History • Tags: Brazil, History, Literature
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Boundaries of Nature
Landscape Change in Southern Brazil, from 1953 to the Present DaySixty years of landscape change in the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil The Iguaçu National Park was created between 1939 and 1944 by the Brazilian national government at the border with Argentina. The creation of the park was disputed by the local state government, which, in the late 1950s, started to settle hundreds of families of Brazilians farmers inside park area. This later resulted in a conflicted process of removal and […]
Categories: History • Tags: Animation, Argentina, Deforestation, Graphic Design, History, Land Use, National Park, Visualization
Rivers and Whirlpools
Rivers and Whirlpools: a spatial and historical interpretation of La Vorágine The initial scene of the 1972 film, Aguirre, the Wrath of Good, depicts a sixteenth-century expedition descending from the Andeans highlands into the Amazonian lowlands. The expedition led by Francisco Pizarro is in search of the mythical city of El Dorado. The movie, directed by Werner Herzog, is a hodge-podge of different exploratory travels of sixteenth-century conquistadores, from Francisco de Orellana’s upriver Amazonian voyage to Lope de Aguirre’s downriver […]
Categories: History • Tags: Amazon, Brazil, Colombia, Eustasio Rivera, History, La Vorágine, Literature, Spatial History, The Vortex
Land Use and Deforestation in Southeastern Brazil — 1753-1840
Land Use and Deforestation in Southeastern Brazil — 1753-1840[1] This article analyzes the pressure of farming on tropical forests in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Brazil. Making use of GIS technology, it was possible to create a map for the South Central of the Minas Gerais province and geocode historical data for agriculture and livestock production. We have found an association between corn and swine production in areas of forest, and we suggest a correlation of the practices of slash-and-burn agriculture, pig […]
Categories: History • Tags: 18 Century, 19th Century, Deforestation, History, Land Use, Minas Gerais
The Plays of França Júnior
The Plays of França Júnior is an interactive visualization showing the social network formed by the characters in the plays of Brazilian nineteenth-century playwright França Júnior. This visualization is part of a larger research project on social networks in Brazilian literature led by Zephyr Frank at Stanford University’s Spatial History Project. See the interactive visualization here. It is plain, then, that there is an intention to encapsulate a representative type of the Brazilian ruling class, through relationships peculiar to him […]
Categories: History • Tags: 19th Century, Brazil, Drama, França Júnior, History, Network Analysis, Rio de Janeiro, Visualization
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas / The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas is an animation showing the social network formed by the characters in the Machado de Assis‘s nineteenth-century Brazilian novel. This visualization is part of a larger research project on social networks in Brazilian literature led by Zephyr Frank at Stanford University’s Spatial History Project. In this narrated visualization, the characters in Machado de Assis’s masterpiece are presented in the space of social […]
Categories: History • Tags: 19th Century, Bras Cubas, Brazil, History, Literature, Machado de Assis, Network Analysis, Rio de Janeiro
The South Atlantic Columbian Exchange
The South Atlantic Columbian Exchange In his classic 1972 book, The Columbian Exchange, Alfred W. Crosby Jr. assesses the biological and cultural consequences of the introduction of new species into transatlantic environments. From 1492 on, different species of animals, plants, viruses and bacteria were exchanged between the Old and New Worlds following their human symbiotic companions. The consequences of these exchanges for human history were manifold — from the decimation of the majority of Americas’ indigenous population by Old-World germs […]
Categories: History • Tags: Africa, Brazil, Columbian Exchange, History
Perspectivism and the Decolonization of the Subject
Perspectivism and the Decolonization of the Subject The more the colonized has assimilated the cultural values of the metropolis, the more he will have escaped the bush. — Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks[1] To understand the terms of the colonial difference established in the last 500 hundred years between colonizer and colonized it is necessary to disassemble the ideas of man and humanity that have been at the center of the European thought since the Renaissance. Walter Mignolo is […]
Categories: History • Tags: Deleuze, History, Leibniz, Perspectivism, Postcolonialism, Species, Viveiros de Castro
The Journeys of Francisco Moreno
The Journeys of Francisco Moreno: Views on nature in the southernmost part of Argentina – 1873 -1906 This article analyses views of Eastern Patagonia that factored into the discourse of Francisco Moreno, an Argentine naturalist and geographer in the late 19th century. An analysis of the documents shows that his preoccupation with countering the belief at the time that the Patagonia was a “useless desert,” coupled with his sense of deception with the process of land distribution after the military […]
Frederico Freitas 