1st Edition
Connected Histories of Oil in Latin America Power to the Periphery
Introduction, 1: Epochs, 2: Places, 3: Actors, 4: Archives, Conclusion, Bibliography
Biography
Antoine Acker is Professor of Modern History at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His research focuses on Latin America’s global connections in the Anthropocene. He is the leader of the Swiss National Foundation (SNSF)-funded project “AnthropoSouth: Latin American Oil Revolutions in the Development Century” and co-leader of “Resilient Forest Cities”, a project funded by the Gerda Henkel foundation. His previous publications include Volkswagen in the Amazon (2017) and award-winning research on Brazil’s energy history.
Lukas Becker is an environmental and social historian and holds a PhD from the University of Geneva. His research explores social and labor movements in the Colombian oil industry and the environmental history of oil towns across Latin America in the twentieth century.
Nathalia Capellini is an environmental historian specializing in energy policies, infrastructure, and environmental conflicts in Latin America affiliated with the University of Lausanne. She holds a PhD in history from Paris-Saclay University with an award-winning dissertation about the Tucuruí dam in the Brazilian Amazon.
Reynaldo de los Reyes is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Geneva. His work examines the history of energy through the lenses of environmental history and the history of technology. He earned his PhD in History from El Colegio de México, where he wrote his dissertation on Mexico City’s energy system in the 20th century.
Henrique Gasperin is a historian and PhD researcher at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID). He holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and His research is mainly focused on environmental and energy history in Latin America, with a special emphasis in the Amazon.
