Tag: community autonomy

• Between Community Autonomy and Green Colonialism: Contested Experience of the Sociobioeconomy in Amazonia

  

  The discourse of a sociobioeconomy has been promoted in Brazil as a novel development paradigm for supporting Amazonian forest communities while keeping the forest standing. During the era of Chico Mendes and the Kayapó-led resistance of the late 1980s, the defense of living in and from the forest constituted a rejection of developmentalist models. But…

  ethnoresurgence

  February 20, 2026

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  brazilian amazon, community autonomy, governance, green colonialism, institutions, sociobioeconomy