G. (Gabriel) Queiroz Imhoff, MA
PhD student
E-mail:
g.queiroz.imhoff rug.nl
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I am a PhD candidate in International Relations under a cotutelle agreement between the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) and the University of Groningen. My research bridges the fields of international and environmental history by examining the socio-environmental costs of Brazil’s insertion into global capitalism (c. 1820s–1880s). Drawing on the theories of uneven and combined development and the metabolic rift, I argue that coffee production in the Paraíba Valley wove together forced dependency, debt, technological dependence and colonialism, and resistance too, while making coffee-growing Brazil’s an integral part of modern global capitalism.
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