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SUMMARY:The Amazon Third Way and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: an atte
 mpt to overcome history through technology - Emiliano Cabrera Rocha (Depar
 tment of Geography)
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CONTACT:Olin Moctezuma
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, a group of natural and social scientists hav
 e been crafting a vision of economic development that pursues both industr
 ialising and preserving the biodiverse Amazon forest. Baptised 'Amazon Thi
 rd Way'\, this vision seeks to transcend what its proponents conceptualise
  as the binary opposition between the 'First Way' of tropical conservation
  and the 'Second Way' of extractivist development. Key to this vision is t
 he role of so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies such as art
 ificial intelligence\, robotics and biotechnology. In this talk\, I will a
 nalyse how the abovementioned vision attempts to overcome historical inert
 ias\, and more broadly\, I will situate it within longer histories of tech
 no-economic and environmental imaginaries for the Amazon.
LOCATION:Zoom
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