Dr. Miguel Mundstock Xavier de Carvalho

Miguel Carvalho has been a professor of history at the Federal University of the Southern Frontier Fronteira Sul, Brazil, since 2011. He is a member of the university’s graduate program in history and the former speaker of the graduate program in agroecology and sustainable rural development. His research has focused on environmental and economic history, history of agriculture, animals and the politics of food systems, and vegetarianism. His current research project looks at the environmental history of chickens in Paraná, Brazil—a region with high numbers of chickens—investigating multiple aspects related to animal welfare and wider socioenvironmental impacts caused by the intensification of this animal agriculture.

RCC Project: The Environmental History of the Chicken in Paraná, Brazil (1960–80)

Selected Publications:

• “Science and Agribusiness in the History of Pig Factory Farming in Ontario.” Fronteiras: Journal of Social, Technological and Environmental Science 10, no. 2 (2021): 187–99. https://doi.org/10.21664/2238-8869.2021v10i2.p187-199.
• “Animal Welfare and Pig Factory Farming in Ontario, Canada (1950s–Present).” Journal of Agricultural Studies 8, no. 4 (2020): 482–96. https://doi.org/10.5296/jas.v8i4.17594.
• “História dos impactos ambientais da modernização da pecuária: O caso da produção de suínos no Paraná (1950–presente)” [History of the environmental impacts of livestock modernization: The case of pig production in Paraná (1950–present)]. In História Ambiental: Natureza, Sociedade, Fronteira, edited by José Luiz de Andrade Franco, José Augusto Drummond, and Sandro Dutra e Silva, 377–94, vol. 3. Natureza, Sociedade, Fronteira. Rio de Janeiro: Garamond, 2020.
• “Vegetarianismo e veganismo: A expansão rápida de uma nova filosofia alimentar no Brasil” [Vegetarianism and veganism: The rapid expansion of a new food philosophy in Brazil]. Revista De Alimentação E Cultura Das Américas 2, no. 2 (2020): 89–101. https://doi.org/10.35953/raca.v2i2.57.
• with Eunice Sueli Nodari and Rubens Onofre Nodari. “‘Defensivos’ ou ‘agrotóxicos’? História do uso e da percepção dos agrotóxicos no Estado de Santa Catarina, Brasil, 1950–2002” [“Defensives” or “pesticides”? A history of the use and perception of pesticides in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, 1950–2002]. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos 24, no. 1 (2017): 75–91. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702017000100002.
• with Bruno Griebler Provin and Renan Paganini Valentini. “Uma Leitura da Modernização da Suinocultura: História, Agropecuária e Bem-Estar Animal—Paraná, Brasil (1960–1980)” [A Reading of the modernization of pig farming: History, agriculture, and animal welfare—Paraná, Brazil (1960–1980)]. Expedições: Teoria da História & Historiografia 7, no. 2 (2016): 119–40.