Rob Nixon and João Moreira Salles
Host: João Biehl, Brazil LAB director and Susan Dodd Brown Professor at the Princeton University Department of Anthropology with studies in medical and environmental anthropology and global health.
South African Rob Nixon is a pillar of the “Environmental Humanities” and Professor at Princeton. He authors very important and globally recognized books on environment and literature (see Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor) and frequently writes for the New York Times. João Moreira Salles is a journalist and filmmaker and author of the piauí magazine series “Arrabalde” (based on his recent Amazon trip/research).