Jonathan DeVore

Dr. Jonathan DeVore is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. His research focuses on distributive justice, political ecology, and agrarian reform in Brazil.

Research Interests:

• Political ecology of land and resource redistribution
• Anthropology of resilience and crisis
• Extractivism and financial systems in rural contexts
• Intersections of moral philosophy and social movements
• Degrowth theory and redistributive democracy
• Ethnographic studies of Brazilian cacao lands

Publications: His work spans topics from resilience theory in the Anthropocene to the racialization of food practices in Brazil, with a focus on the enduring effects of land ownership over state-distributed goods.