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Dr James Fraser

Senior Lecturer

  1. 2025
  2. E-pub ahead of print

    Forest citizens and people-centered conservation in the Brazilian Amazon

    Parry, L., Morello, T., Fraser, J., Guerrero, N., Lotta, G., Martins, R., Newton, P., Pires, J., Souza Santos, A. & Torres, M., 30/06/2025, In: Conservation Biology. 39, 3, e70031.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Exploring food sovereignty among Amazonian peoples: Brazil's national school feeding programme in Oriximiná, Pará state

    Affonso, H., Fraser, J. A., Nepomuceno, Í., Torres, M. & Medeiros, M., 2/01/2025, In: The Journal of Peasant Studies. 52, 1, p. 178-205 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  4. 2024
  5. Published

    Defining the Anthropocene tropical forest: Moving beyond ‘disturbance’ and ‘landscape domestication’ with concepts from African worldviews

    Fraser, J., Cosiaux, A., Walters, G., Asiyanbi, A., Osei-Wusu Adjei, P., Addo-Fordjour, P., Fairhead, J., Kialo, P., Engone Obiang, N. L. & Oslisly, R., 31/12/2024, In: The Anthropocene Review. 11, 3, p. 614-635 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Countercolonial autonomies against the Capitalocene in Amazonia: the Lower Tapajós Indigenous movement

    Tupinambá, R. & Fraser, J. A., 29/11/2024, In: Estudos Avançados. 38, 112, p. 113-134 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Forthcoming

    Autonomias contracoloniais frente ao Capitaloceno na Amazônia: o movimento indígena no baixo Tapajós

    Tupinamba, R. & Fraser, J., 5/06/2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Estudos Avançados.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. 2022
  9. Published

    From ‘prison’ to ‘paradise’? Seeking freedom at the rainforest frontier through urban-rural migration

    Piva da Silva, M., Fraser, J. & Parry, L., 31/12/2022, In: World Development. 160, 14 p., 106077.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Those who live like us: Autodemarcations and the co-becoming of Indigenous and beiradeiros on the Upper Tapajós River, Brazilian Amazonia

    Vega, A., Fraser, J., Torres, M. & Loures, R., 28/02/2022, In: Geoforum. 129, p. 39-48 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. 2021
  12. E-pub ahead of print

    Capability failures and corrosive disadvantage in a violent rainforest metropolis

    Piva da Silva, M., Fraser, J. & Parry, L., 3/03/2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geographical Review. 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. 2019
  14. Published

    Deciphering African tropical forest dynamics in the Anthropocene: how social and historical sciences can elucidate forest research and management

    Walters, G., Fraser, J., Picard, N., Hymas, O. & Fairhead, J., 1/09/2019, In: Anthropocene. 27, 7 p., 100214.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  15. Published

    Counter-conducts and the green grab: Forest peoples’ resistance to industrial resource extraction in the Saracá-Taquera National Forest, Brazilian Amazonia

    Nepomuceno, I., Affonso, H., Fraser, J. A. & Torres, M., 1/05/2019, In: Global Environmental Change. 56, p. 124-133 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. 2018
  17. Published

    Amazonian Struggles for Recognition

    Fraser, J. A., 12/2018, In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 43, 4, p. 718-732 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Soil knowledge

    Fraser, J. A., 5/10/2018, The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Cox, R. & Callan, H. (eds.). Wiley

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  19. Published

    Amazonian peasant livelihood differentiation as mutuality-market dialectics

    Fraser, J. A., Cardoso, T., Steward, A. & Parry, L. T. W., 2018, In: The Journal of Peasant Studies. 45, 7, p. 1382-1409 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  20. 2017
  21. Published

    Indigenous soil enrichment for food security and climate change mitigation in Africa and Asia: a review

    Fairhead, J., Fraser, J. A., Amanor, K., Solomon, D., Lehmann, J. & Leach, M., 11/2017, Indigenous knowledge: Enhancing its contribution to natural resource management. Sillitoe, P. (ed.). Wallingford: CABI

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  22. Published

    Laws of the field: rights and justice in development oriented agronomy

    Fraser, J. A., 21/06/2017, Agronomy for development: the politics of knowledge in agricultural research. Sumberg, J. (ed.). Abingdon: Routledge

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  23. 2016
  24. Published

    Cultural valuation and biodiversity conservation in the Upper Guinea Forest, West Africa

    Fraser, J. A., Diabaté, M., Narmah, W., Beavogui, P., Guilavogui, K., de Foresta , H. & Braga Junqueira, A., 20/09/2016, In: Ecology and Society. 21, 3, 18 p., 36.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Justice and conservation: the need to incorporate recognition

    Martin, A., Coolsaet, B., Corbera, E., Dawson, N., Fraser, J. A., Lehmann, I. & Rodriguez, I., 05/2016, In: Biological Conservation. 197, p. 254-261 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  26. Published

    Indigenous African soil enrichment as climate-smart sustainable agriculture alternative

    Solomon, D., Lehmann, J., Fraser, J. A., Leach, M., Amanor, K., Frausin Bustamante, V., Kristiansen, S., Millimouno, D. & Fairhead, J., 31/03/2016, In: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 14, 2, p. 71-76 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  27. 2015
  28. Published

    An intergenerational transmission of sustainability? ancestral habitus and food production in a traditional agro-ecosystem of the Upper Guinea Forest, West Africa

    Fraser, J., Frausin Bustamante, V. & Jarvis, A., 03/2015, In: Global Environmental Change. 31, p. 226-238 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  29. 2014
  30. Published

    “God made the soil, but we made it fertile”: gender, knowledge and practice in the formation and use of African Dark Earths in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

    Frausin Bustamante, V., Fraser, J., Narmah, W., Lahai, M., Winnebah, T., Fairhead, J. & Leach, M., 31/10/2014, In: Human Ecology. 42, 5, p. 695-710 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  31. Published

    Reframing ‘crisis’ in Fair Trade coffee production: trajectories of agrarian change in Nicaragua

    Fraser, J., Fisher, E. & Arce, A., 01/2014, In: Journal of Agrarian Change. 14, 1, p. 52-73 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  32. Published

    Anthropogenic dark earths in the landscapes of Upper Guinea, West Africa: intentional or inevitable?

    Fraser, J., Leach, M. & Fairhead, J., 2014, In: Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 104, 6, p. 1222-1238 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  33. 2012
  34. Published

    Convergent Adaptations: Bitter Manioc Cultivation Systems in Fertile Anthropogenic Dark Earths and Floodplain Soils in Central Amazonia

    Fraser, J. A., Alves-Pereira, A., Junqueira, A. B., Peroni, N. & Clement, C. R., 29/08/2012, In: PLoS ONE. 7, 8, 13 p., e43636.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  35. Published

    Green grabs and biochar: revaluing African soils and farming in the new carbon economy

    Leach, M., Fairhead, J. & Fraser, J., 2012, In: The Journal of Peasant Studies. 39, 2, p. 285-307 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  36. 2011
  37. Published

    Anthropogenic soils in the Central Amazon: from categories to a continuum

    Fraser, J., Teixeira, W., Falcao, N., Woods, W., Lehmann, J. & Junqueira, A. B., 09/2011, In: Area. 43, 3, p. 264-273 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  38. Published

    Crop Diversity on Anthropogenic Dark Earths in Central Amazonia

    Fraser, J. A., Junqueira, A. B., Kawa, N. C., Moraes, C. P. & Clement, C. R., 08/2011, In: Human Ecology. 39, 4, p. 395-406 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  39. Published

    Homegardens on Amazonian Dark Earths, Non-anthropogenic Upland, and Floodplain Soils along the Brazilian Middle Madeira River Exhibit Diverging Agrobiodiversity

    Fraser, J. A., Junqueira, A. B. & Clement, C. R., 03/2011, In: Economic Botany. 65, 1, p. 1-12 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  40. 2010
  41. Published

    Caboclo Horticulture and Amazonian Dark Earths along the Middle Madeira River, Brazil

    Fraser, J. A., 10/2010, In: Human Ecology. 38, 5, p. 651-662 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  42. Published

    The Diversity of Bitter Manioc (Manihot Esculenta Crantz) Cultivation in a Whitewater Amazonian Landscape

    Fraser, J., 2010, In: Diversity. 2, 4, p. 586-609 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  43. 2009
  44. Published

    Historical Ecology and Dark Earths in Whitewater and Blackwater Landscapes: Comparing the Middle Madeira and Lower Negro Rivers

    Fraser, J., Cardoso, T., Junqueira, A. B., Falcao, N. & Clement, C. R., 2009, Amazonian dark earths : Wim Sombroeks vision. Woods, W. I., Teixeira , W. G., Lehmann, J., Steiner, C., WinklerPrins, A. & Rebellato, L. (eds.). Dordrecht: Springer Verlag, p. 229-264 36 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  45. 2008
  46. Published

    Dark Earths and manioc cultivation in Central Amazonia: a window on pre-Columbian agricultural systems?

    Fraser, J. & Clement, C. R., 2008, In: Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi : Ciências Humanas. 3, 2, p. 175-194 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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