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TY - JOUR
T1 - Envisioning Amazonia
T2 - Geospatial technology, legality and the (dis)enchantments of infrastructure
AU - Vurdubakis, Theodore
AU - Rajão, Raoni
N1 - The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5 (1), 2022, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space page: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ene on SAGE Journals Online: http://journals.sagepub.com/
PY - 2022/3/1
Y1 - 2022/3/1
N2 - The article discusses the sociotechnical infrastructures of deforestation detection in the Brazilian Amazon and the forms of visibility and legality these enact. It draws upon a long-term ethnographic study of how digital infrastructures impinge upon, and are enacted as, social relations. We focus upon the role of satellite images in these processes and on how the arrangements for their production and circulation become sites where knowledge and ‘un-knowledge’ are engendered and environmental politics waged.
AB - The article discusses the sociotechnical infrastructures of deforestation detection in the Brazilian Amazon and the forms of visibility and legality these enact. It draws upon a long-term ethnographic study of how digital infrastructures impinge upon, and are enacted as, social relations. We focus upon the role of satellite images in these processes and on how the arrangements for their production and circulation become sites where knowledge and ‘un-knowledge’ are engendered and environmental politics waged.
KW - Deforestation
KW - Amazon
KW - politics of knowledge
KW - data infrastructure
KW - geospatial technology
U2 - 10.1177/2514848619899788
DO - 10.1177/2514848619899788
M3 - Journal article
VL - 5
SP - 81
EP - 103
JO - Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
JF - Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
SN - 2514-8486
IS - 1
ER -