Antoine ACKER

 

​

E-mail : antoine.acker@eui.eu

Pages institutionnelles : https://www.hist.uzh.ch/de/fachbereiche/neuzeit/oberassistierende/acker.html

​

Informations professionnelles

 

Enseignant d'Histoire à l'Université de Zurich.

​

​

Thèmes de Recherche

 

Global history

​

Environmental and energy humanities

​

Brazilian and Amazonian history

​

German social movements / alternative left

​

Business history (multinational companies)

​

Forced labor

​

Post-colonial Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa .

​

​

Publications

​

MONOGRAPHIES :

​

Volkswagen in the Amazon: the Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil. Cambridge University Press (Global and International History series), 2017.

 

LIVRES ORGANISÉS :

 

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.

 

CHAPITRES DE LIVRES : 

​

"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.