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Frederico Freitas

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Boundaries of Nature

September 24, 2014 by fredericofreitas

Landscape Change in Southern Brazil, from 1953 to the Present Day Sixty 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 […]

Categories: History • Tags: Animation, Argentina, Deforestation, Graphic Design, History, Land Use, National Park, Visualization

The Plays of França Júnior

August 30, 2011 by fredericofreitas

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

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I am a historian and Assistant Professor of digital and Latin American History at North Carolina State University.

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