Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie

My research brings insights from environmental and economic anthropology to bear on each other, opening space for a social analysis in which humans and non-humans interact and mutually distribute responsibilities. My main region of interest is Amazonia, where I have conducted extensive fieldwork on the economy of Non-Timber Forest Products involving river traders, Indigenous and riverside communities, and fair-trade initiatives. I am particularly interested in forms of exchange, credit, patronage and other asymmetrical relations, as well as paradigms of human-environment relations in the region and beyond. I began working with Amazonian riverside communities in 2007 when I was an undergraduate student at the University of São Paulo. I have also written on Japanese environmental movements, with a focus on antinuclear protests following the Fukushima meltdown of 2011. I received a PhD in Anthropology from Princeton University in 2020 and was a Harvard University Environmental Fellow from 2020-2022.