Robert Davenport

I am an environmental anthropologist and political ecologist working on Amazonian land-use transitions, agrarian change, and the politics of soils, species, and working landscapes. My research examines how cattle, cacao, fungi, soils, secondary forests, roads, and farmer knowledge co-produce territorial futures along the Transamazon Highway and in the Xingu watershed. I approach these questions through long-term ethnographic fieldwork, mixed methods, and a commitment to understanding ruin and resurgence in landscapes shaped by frontier development, infrastructure, and the productivist logics of agrarian science.

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tropnevadr@gmail.com