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Dr. Diogo De Carvalho Cabral
Assistant Professor, History

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Placing Insects in Histories of Science, Isis, 115, (1), 2024, p136 - 140 Journal Article, 2024

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Andre Vital, Margarita Gascon, More-Than-Human Histories of Latin America: Decentring the Human in Environmental History, 1st, London, University of London Press, 2024 Book, 2024

An environmental history of the 'second conquest': agricultural export boom and landscape-making in Latin America, ca.1850-1930 in, editor(s)S. Engel-Di Mauro, B. Bustos, D. Ojeda, F. Milanez, and G. García , Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment , Routledge, 2023, [Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Lise Sedrez] Book Chapter, 2023

Infusing the globe: Yerba mate, Polish immigration, and creolization in southern Brazil (c.1870-1920) in, editor(s)Thomas Walker, Jane McGaughey, Gabrielle Machnik-Kekesi, and Victoria Kelly , Migration in the Face of Emerging Risks: Historical Case Studies, New Paradigms, and Future Directions , Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2023, [Fabiana Guarez, Diogo de Carvalho Cabral] Book Chapter, 2023

Multispecies cultures and environmental change: The animal (agency) turn: in, editor(s)E. O'Gorman, M. Carey, S. Swart, and W. San Martín , Routledge Handbook of Environmental History, Routledge, 2023, [Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Heta Lähdesmäki] Book Chapter, 2023 URL

Camila Carvalho, Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Scales of inequality: the role of spatial extent in environmental justice analysis, Landscape and Urban Planning, 2022 Journal Article, 2022 URL

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Creatures of the clearings: deforestation, grass-cutting ants, and multispecies landscape change in postcolonial Brazil, Environment and History, 2022 Journal Article, 2022 URL

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, André Vital, Gabriel Lopes, Tales from the dirt: post-anthropocentric perspectives on Brazil's past, Journal of Historical Geography, In Press, Corrected, 2022 Journal Article, 2022 URL

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Ambientalizando a escrita da história, Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña, 12, (1), 2022, p431 - 436 Review Article, 2022

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, André Vasques Vital, Multispecies Emergent Textualities: Writing and Reading in Ecologies of Selves, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2021 Journal Article, 2021

João Carlos Ferreira de Melo Júnior, Patrícia de Oliveira Areas, Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Viviane Stern Fonseca Kruel, Lucas da Silva Rudolpho, Fábio Luiz Quandt, Traditional knowledge of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: environmental history, current status, and policy challenges, Revista Confluências Culturais, 10, (2), 2021, p129 - 143 Journal Article, 2021

Camila Carvalho, Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Beyond the favelas: an analysis of intra-urban poverty patterns in Brazil, The Professional Geographer, 73, (2), 2021, p269 - 281 Journal Article, 2021

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Horizontality, negotiation, and emergence: toward a philosophy of environmental history, Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña, 2021 Journal Article, 2021 URL

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Meaningful Clearings: Human-Ant Negotiated Landscapes in Nineteenth-Century Brazil, Environmental History, 26, (1), 2021, p55 - 78 Journal Article, 2021 URL

Journal of Historical Geography, Elsevier, 2020-2022 Editorial Board, 2020

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Landscape and letterscape in early colonial Brazil, Studia Geohistorica, 2018 Journal Article, 2018 URL

The alphabetic colonization of Amerindian oral ecologies in early Brazil, The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, 1st, Oxford University Press, 2017, [Diogo de Carvalho Cabral] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2017 URL

Claudia Maria Leal Leon and Diogo De Carvalho Cabral and Marina Miraglia and Rogé, Territórios e Paisagens na América Latina, Fronteiras: Journal of Social, Technological and Environmental Science, 6, (1), 2017, p12--21 Journal Article, 2017 DOI

Raquel L. Costa and Jayme A. Prevedello and Bruno G. de Souza and Diogo C. Cabral, Forest transitions in tropical landscapes: A test in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot, Applied Geography, 82, 2017, p93--100 Journal Article, 2017 DOI

Alexandro Sol{\'{o, Revealing Hidden Forest Dialogs: Species Introduction, Charcoal Production and the Environmental History of Rio de Janeiro"s Urban Forests, Environmental History in the Making, 2017, p219--237 Journal Article, 2017 DOI

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral and Alexandro Sol{\'{o, Urbanising rainforests: emergent socioecologies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Landscape History, 37, (2), 2016, p57--78 Journal Article, 2016 DOI

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Ana Bustamante, Metamorfoses Florestais: Culturas, Ecologias e as Transformações Históricas da Mata Atlântica, 1st, Curitiba, Prismas, 2016 Book, 2016

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Palavra & Território: Escrita alfabética e a colonização portuguesa da Mata Atlântica, Fronteiras: Journal of Social, Technological and Environmental Science, 4, (1), 2015, p207 Journal Article, 2015 DOI

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Into the bowels of tropical earth: leaf-cutting ants and the colonial making of agrarian Brazil, Journal of Historical Geography, 50, 2015, p92--105 Journal Article, 2015 DOI

Diogo De Carvalho Cabral, No mutirão da vida: pensando como um historiador ambiental, Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 31, 2014 Journal Article, 2014 DOI

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Na Presença da Floresta: Mata Atlântica e História Colonial, 1st, Rio de Janeiro, Garamond, 2014 Book, 2014

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, A economia madeireira no colonial tardio fluminense: uma primeira aproximação, História Econômica & História de Empresas, 10, (1), 2012 Journal Article, 2012 DOI

Diogo de Carvalho CABRAL, ÁGUAS PASSADAS: SOCIEDADE E NATUREZA NO RIO DE JANEIRO OITOCENTISTA, Raega - O Espaço Geográfico em Análise, 23, 2011 Journal Article, 2011 DOI

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Von Thünen e o abastecimento madeireiro de centros urbanos pré-industriais, Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População, 28, (2), 2011, p405--427 Journal Article, 2011 DOI

Simone Rodrigues Freitas and Leonardo de Bem Lignani and Diogo Carvalho Cabral, Influence of Landscape Features on Forest Maturity: the Case of a Fragmented Landscape in the erra do Mar Coastal Forest in Brazil, Natureza & Conservação, 9, (2), 2011, p194--199 Journal Article, 2011 DOI

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Floresta, política e trabalho: a exploração das madeiras-de-lei no Recôncavo da Guanabara (1760-1820), Revista Brasileira de História, 28, (55), 2008, p217--241 Journal Article, 2008 DOI

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral and Susana Cesco, Notas para uma história da exploração madeireira na Mata Atlântica do sul-sudeste, Ambiente & Sociedade, 11, (1), 2008, p33--48 Journal Article, 2008 DOI

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Substantivismo econômico e história florestal da América portuguesa, Varia Historia, 24, (39), 2008, p113--133 Journal Article, 2008 DOI

D. de Carvalho Cabral and S. Cesco, Arvores do rei, floresta do povo: A instituicao das 'madeiras-de-lei' no Rio de Janeiro e na ilha de Santa Catarina (Brasil) no final do periodo colonial, Luso-Brazilian Review, 44, (2), 2007, p50--86 Journal Article, 2007 DOI

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral and Simone R. Freitas and Judith Tiomny Fiszon, Combining sensors in landscape ecology: imagery-based and farm-level analysis in the study of human-driven forest fragmentation, Sociedade & Natureza, 19, (2), 2007, p69--87 Journal Article, 2007 DOI

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Produtores rurais e indústria madeireira no Rio de Janeiro do final do século XVIII: evidências empíricas para a região do Vale do Macacu, Ambiente & Sociedade, 7, (2), 2004, p125--144 Journal Article, 2004 DOI

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, At the mercy of ants: landscape change and multispecies nation-building in Brazil (1822-1950), Colloquium of the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, February 2023, 2023, Professor Shivi Sivaramakrishnan and Professor Elisabeth J Wood Invited Talk, 2023

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Semiotica de plagas: hormigas como agentes en la construcción de la identidad nacional (Brasil, 1820-1960), Conferencia Internacional Historia del Clima en América y Espanha, Siglos XVII-XXI, El Colegio de Michoacan, 15-16 June 2023, 2023, Professor Luis Alberto Arrioja and Dr. Dolores Ramírez Invited Talk, 2023

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Ana Lunara Morais, Cristiane Barreto, Raised from the ground: space, natural resources and the making of sugar nobilities in colonial Brazil, Symposium Environmental Impact of the Portuguese Empire, King's College London, 2-3 June 2023, 2023, Professor Francisco Bethencourt Invited Talk, 2023

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, La república de las hormigas: dinámicas del paisaje y cultura multiespecífica en el Brasil poscolonial, Journal of Historical Geography, 2023 Journal Article, 2023

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, What is a swamp? Towards a theory of more-than-human places, H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, 12, (1), 2022 Review Article, 2022 URL

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Creatures of the clearings: deforestation, grass-cutting ants, and multispecies landscape change in postcolonial Brazil, Latin American History Seminar, Online, 25 January 2022, 2022 Invited Talk, 2022 URL

Las fuentes escritas a luz de la noción de coautoría humano-animal in, editor(s)P. Urquijo, A. Lazos y K. Lefebvre , Historia Ambiental de América Latina: Enfoques, Procedimientos y Cotidianidades, Morelia, 2022, [Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, André Vital] Book Chapter, 2022

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Bugs in the text: writing and reading in ecologies of selves, V CHAM International Conference on Frontiers of Humanity and Beyond, Lisbon (online), 21-23 July 2021, 2021 Conference Paper, 2021

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Multispecies encounters and emergent textualities, Department of Geography Seminar Series, Trinity College Dublin (online), 17 February 2021, 2021 Invited Talk, 2021

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Horizontality, negotiation, and emergence: theoretical principles of environmental history, SEA US UNESCO Seminar Series, Online, February 2021, 2021, Cristina Brito Invited Talk, 2021 URL

O bioma Mata Atlântica como historicidade relacional in, editor(s)C. Fortkamp, D. Damasceno, F.C. Guarez, and G.Z. Rossi , Biomas, Historicidade e suas Temporalidades: Uma Visão Histórico-Ambiental, Sao Leopoldo, Oikos, 2021, pp30 - 50, [Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Jorge Oliveira Costa] Book Chapter, 2021

Bioma Mata Atlântica, Dicionário de Agroecologia e Educação, 1st, Rio de Janeiro, Expressao Popular, 2021, [Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Alexandro Solarzano, Fernanda Tubenchlak] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2021

Escrita e governança socioecológica no Antigo Regime tropical " uma primeira aproximação in, editor(s)J.L.A. Franco, S. Dutra e Silva, J.A. Drummond, G.G. Tavares , História Ambiental: Natureza, Sociedade, Fronteiras, Rio de Janeiro, Garamond, 2020, [Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Maria Sarita] Book Chapter, 2020

Divya Tolia-Kelly, Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Stephen Legg, Maria Lane, and Nicola Thomas, Historical geographies of the 21st century: Challenging our praxis, Journal of Historical Geography, 69, 2020, p1 - 4 Journal Article, 2020 URL

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Creatures of the clearing: forests, people, and ants in imperial Brazil, Seminar in celebration of 3 years of the Centre for Environmental Humanities, Aarhus, 2019, 2019, Heather Anne Swanson Invited Talk, 2019

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Overwriting the land: alphabetic literacy and socio-environmental change in early Brazil, 17th International Conference of Historical Geographers, Warsaw, 2018, 2018 Invited Talk, 2018

Especies exóticas, produção de energia e história ambiental das florestas urbanas do Rio de janeiro in, Desafios da Metropolização do Espaço, Rio de Janeiro, Consequência, 2015, [Alexandro Solorzano, Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Rogerio Oliveira] Book Chapter, 2015

Patrimônio ambiental e diversidade cultural do Brasil in, editor(s)C. Udry and J.S. Eidt , Conhecimento Tradicional: Conceitos e Marco Legal, Brasilia, Embrapa, 2015, [Ana Bustamante, Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Jorge Kleber da Silva] Book Chapter, 2015

Recognition

Representations

Member of the Journal of Historical Geography's Editorial Board. 2023

I was an editor of the Journal of Historical Geography (Elsevier) between 2020 and 2022. This was a waged position. 2020

I was a grant application reviewer for the National Science Center (Poland). 2022

Member of the Editorial Board of Ambientes - Revista de Geografia e Ecologia Política [Environments - Journal of Geography and Political Ecology]. 2021

Awards and Honours

Milton Santos Prize (Honorable Mention) 2017

Journal of Historical Geography Best Paper Prize 2016