Dr. Antoine Acker

Antoine Acker, Dr.

Oberassistent

Tel.: +41 44 634 38 81

Raumbezeichnung: KO2 G 273

antoine.acker@hist.uzh.ch

2020-2021

Antoine Acker will be in residence at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich from September 2020 to March 2021 and a Fellow at the Munich Centre for Global History from April to July 2021.

Current projects

- AnthropoSouth: Latin American Oil Revolutions in the Development Century (SNF-Eccellenza)

- Between Techno-Politics and Eco-Mythology: Petroleum and the Making of Modern Brazil (Book project)

- History and the Politics of the Anthropocene

- Teaching and collaborative project with Shanghai University: Global History of Climate Change from Theory to Practice

Curriculum Vitae

June 2019 Fellow of the Center for the History of Global Development, Shanghai University

2016-2017 Marie Sklodowska Curie COFUND fellow, environmental humanities, University of Turin

2015-2016 (Fall Semester) Fellow of the Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern

Spring 2015 Invited teacher in European Studies, University of Maastricht

Winter 2015 Fellow of the Center for InterAmerican Studies, University of Bielefeld

2014-2015 Lecturer (ATER) in Brazilian history and culture, University of La Rochelle

2013-2014 Lecturer (ATER) in German studies, University Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle

Spring 2013 Teaching contract in history, University of Bielefeld

2009-2014 Ph.D. in history, European University Institute, Florence

2006-2007 Student research assistant in history, University of Bielefeld

2005-2009 BA and MA in a bilingual studies program (history and German language didactic), University of Bielefeld, University Denis Diderot - Paris 7

Scientific publications (selection)

Monograph:

Volkswagen in the Amazon: the Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil. Cambridge University Press (Global and International History series), 2017. Warren Dean Memorial Prize's honorable mention 2018

Edited Volumes:

Brazil in the Great Acceleration. Special issue of Varia Historia, 34(65) | 2018. Co-editored with Georg Fischer.

Negotiating Nature in the Americas: Imaginaries and Interventions between Preservation and Exploitation. Special issue of the Forum for InterAmerican Research, 9(2) | 2016. Co-editored with Olaf Kaltmeier and Anne Tittor.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals & Encyclopedia:

Amazon Development. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. 2021, p.1-24.

https://oxfordre.com/latinamericanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.001.0001/acrefore-9780199366439-e-837

“What Could Carbofascism look like? A Historical Perspective on Reactionary Politics in the Covid-19 Pandemic”, Journal for the History of Environment and Society 5 | 2020, p.135-148.

“A Different Story in the Anthropocene: Brazil’s Postcolonial Quest for Oil (1930-1975)” Past & Present, 249(1) | 2020, p.167-211.

winner of the Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prize 2021

“The Nature of the Brazilian Flag: An Environmental Turn under Military Rule (1964-1985)”, Forum for InterAmerican Research, 13(1) | 2020, p.69-83.

“Historicizing Brazil's Great Acceleration”, Varia Historia, 34(65) | 2018. p.307-314. Co-authored with Georg Fischer.

“Nature, nation et histoire au pays du ‘développement’: les versions environnementales du passé brésilien”, Culture della Sostenibilità, 58 | 2018. p.48-59.

“Tales of the Transamazonian: Hopes and Disillusion on a Route of Ecological Migrations”, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (Oxford University Press), 24(2) | 2017. p.306-324. Co-authored with Nathalia Capellini.

“The Social Production of Nature Between Coloniality and Capitalism ”, Forum for InterAmerican Research, 9(2) | 2016. p.5-24. Co-authored with Olaf Kaltmeier and Anne Tittor.

“The Greatest Fire on Earth: How VW and the Brazilian Military Regime Accidentally Helped to Turn the Amazon into a Global Political Arena” (bilingual in English and Portuguese), Revista Brasileira de História, 34(68) | 2014. p.13-33.

“The Brand that Knows our Land: Volkswagen's ‘Brazilianization’ in the ‘Economic Miracle’ (1968-1973), MONDE(S). Histoire, Espaces, Relations, 5 | 2014. p.199-218.

“Trabalho forçado na fazenda da Volks: crônica de um escândalo amazônico na Alemanha” , Hendu – Revista Latinoamericana de Derechos Humanos, 4(1) | 2014, p.57-69.

“Entre deux drapeaux : les ouvriers capverdiens au Portugal pendant la période révolutionnaire (1974-1976)”, Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 21 | 2011, p.123-146.

Book Chapters:

“L'occasion manquée d'une éthique de la mondialisation ? Une étude des contradictions sociales, écologiques et mémorielles chez Volkswagen”, in Patricia Kottelat, ed., Ethique Contemporaine. Torino: Meti, 2020, forthcoming.

“Nature”, in Anne Tittor et al., eds, The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas. London: Routledge, 2019, 418-432. Co-authored with Olaf Kaltmeier and Anne Tittor.

"Apesar deles: le développement d'une pensée environnementale dans le Brésil des militaires", in James N. Green & Mônica Raisa Schpun, eds, 1964: La dictature brésilienne et son legs, Le Poisson volant, 2018. p.230-255.

"Trabalho forçado na fazenda da Volks: crônica de um escândalo amazônico na Alemanha”, in Ricardo R. Figueira, Adônia A. Prado & Edna M. Galvão, eds, Privação de liberdade ou atentado à dignidade: escravidão contemporânea, Mauad, 2013. p.165-180.

Others:

Review of Shawn William Miller, The Street Is Ours: Community, the Car, and the Nature of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018). American Historical Review 125(2) | 2020.

Review of Eve E. Buckley, Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth Century Brazil (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017). Environmental History 23(4) | 2018.

"Modeling Time in the Amazon." Review of Jeremy M. Campbell, Conjuring Property. Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon (University of Washington Press). H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews, 2017.

Environmental History 23(4) | 2018.“Amazon.” InterAmerican Wiki: Terms - Concepts - Critical Perspectives. www.uni-bielefeld.de/cias/wiki/a_Amazon.html (2015).