«A Brief Introduction to...» Colonial Amazonia
The Amazon is renowned for its biodiversity, rivers, and forests, but humans have played a central role in this region since prehistory, as Pablo Ibáñez Bonillo explains in A Brief Introduction to… Colonial Amazonia, part of the series CHAM Talks: A Podcast to Discover Science. The researcher discusses the occupation of this territory, the arrival of European conquerors and the establishment of their empires, the colonial policies of Portugal and Spain, and how Amazonian societies functioned during this period, many of them existing outside European imperial control.
Pablo Ibáñez Bonillo is a researcher at CHAM – Centre for the Humanities. He holds a PhD in History of the Americas from the University of Pablo de Olavide and is one of the coordinators of the EDGES project (Entangling Indigenous Knowledges in Universities), a research network comprising over 150 scholars from 18 European and American universities, funded by the European Union. His expertise spans ethnohistory, colonial history, the history of the Amazon, and Amazonian identities and heritage.
The interview is conducted by Isabel Araújo Branco.
Coordenation
Isabel Araújo Branco (CHAM)
Organization
CHAM / NOVA FCSH
