Banzeiro Okoto by Eliane Brum
A confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest. Eliane Brum reveals the direct links between structural inequities rooted in gender, race, class, and even species, and the suffering that capitalism and climate breakdown wreak on those who are least responsible for them.Eliane Brum: 'The fight for the Amazon is the fight against our extinction'
https://revistamarieclaireglobo.com/Cultura/noticia/2021/12/eliane-brum-luta-pela-amazonia-e-luta-contra-nossa-extincao.html
-- Humberto Toze * Marie Claire (Brazil) *Banzeiro Òkòtó: a breathtaking experience (APPOA Column)
https://sul21.com.br/opiniao/2022/02/banzeiro-okoto-uma-experiencia-arrebatadora-coluna-da-appoa/
* Sul21 *This year, I only needed to open my window in Brazil to witness the climate crisis
‘My snapshot of 2022 shows the Amazon burning – but what it doesn’t communicate is the pain’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/29/this-year-i-only-needed-to-open-my-window-in-brazil-to-witness-the-climate-crisis
-- Eliane Brum * The Guardian *5 – Star Review from Peter Whittaker
‘beyond reportage, beyond polemic; channelling the many voices’
https://newint.org/node/29987
-- Peter Whittaker * New Internationalist *A Manifesto for a New World, With the Amazon at Its Center
“Banzeiro Òkòtó,” by Eliane Brum, considers the devastating impacts of mass deforestation on Brazil and its people.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/books/review/eliane-brum-banzeiro-okoto.html?smid=tw-share
-- William Atkins * The New York Times *The Amazon’s History is Also That of Its Indigenous Residents
Eliane Brum on Whiteness, Bodies in Different Languages, and a More Holistic Approach to Ecology
https://lithub.com/the-amazons-history-is-also-that-of-its-indigenous-residents/
* Literary Hub *Living with the Xingu in deepest Amazonia
The Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum moves from São Paulo to ‘reforest’ herself in the Amazon, and slowly gains the trust of a wary, isolated tribal people.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/living-with-the-xingu-in-deepest-amazonia/
-- Hugh Tomson * The Spectator *Journalism from the centre of the world
https://sumauma.com/en/
* SUMAÚMA *April Edition
https://emagazine.com/
* The Environment *One Journalist’s Dispatch From the Battle to Protect the Amazon Rainforest
https://www.insidehook.com/article/books/new-book-banzeiro-okoto-preservation-amazon-rainforest
* InsideHook *Eliane Brum is an award-winning Brazilian journalist, writer, and documentarist. Her work of nonfiction, The Collector of Leftover Souls, was longlisted for the National Book Award for translated literature.
She is a columnist for the international section of El País among other European and US newspapers and magazines. She is a founder of Sumaúma: Journalism from the Centre of the World, a trilingual news platform based in Altamira, in the Amazon rainforest, where she lives. Her work as a journalist has won more than 40 prizes.
Diane Whitty has translated over a dozen major books from the Portuguese, including The Collector of Leftover Souls by Eliane Brum. She spent twenty-three years in Brazil and now lives in Wisconsin with her husband.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781911648611 |
| ISBN 10 | 1911648616 |
| Title | Banzeiro Okoto |
| Author | Eliane Brum |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The Indigo Press |
| Year published | 2023-03-09 |
| Number of pages | 408 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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