Maurício Waldman

Mauricio Waldman

Maurício Waldman (São Paulo on December 2, 1955) is a professor, researcher, africanist, social activist and pioneer of Brazilian environmentalist movement.

Biography

Waldman was born to a Jewish family originally from Poland and Italy in São Paulo city on December 2, 1955. As an activist, he collaborated with Chico Mendes and several organizations, like Comitê de Apoio aos Povos da Floresta (Forest People Committee), Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade de São Paulo (African Studies Centre of São Paulo University) and Centro Ecumênico de Documentação e Informação – CEDI (Ecumenical Centre of Documentation and Information, in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro). He also participated in teacher's syndicalism, movements against dams, anti-nuclear mobilizations and especially against water pollution in metropolitan area of São Paulo.

From the 1980s to 1992, Waldman was a prominent member of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT - Workers' Party), working out political papers and organizing the Party. He founded the PT Jewish Committee (1988) and its Ecological Commission too (1989). Besides, he became involved in the Executive branch of government as Chico Mendes Park's Coordinator in east side of São Paulo (1990) and Environmentalist Administrator in São Bernardo do Campo (1991–1992), the most important city of ABC Region, industrial region next to São Paulo where PT begun.

However, anti-ecological actions involving the administration of the city and members of the party created a serious conflict between Waldman and the mayor. Thus, he broke off definitely relationship with the PT (1992) and came back to the university and to his professional life (1993).

Researching about environment, topology, imaginary, space-time perception and Subsaharan Africa, Waldman received his Anthropology M.Sc. degree from Universidade de São Paulo (1997). Later, he was the Director of the Children Homeless’ School of São Paulo (1998), Director of the Fundação Estadual do Bem Estar do Menor' School (1999), Coordinator of São Paulo’ Recycling Service (2000) and Editor of the AGB (Brazilian Geographers Association), São Paulo Sector (2002–2003).

Researching water resources, Brazilian metropolitan areas, environment, urban social time and Billings water reservoir in the "ABC" region, Waldman received his Ph.D. degree from Geography Department of São Paulo University (USP) in 2006. His thesis, Água e Metrópole: Limites e Expectativas do Tempo (Water and Metropolis, Limits and Expectations of the Time), is today the more complex and bigger academical work (5 v.) about Brazilian water resources and Water management in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo (see External Links).

Subsequently, with support of Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development: CNPq) Waldman conducted Postdoctoral Research (2010–2011) at Geography Department of Geoscyenses Institute in UNICAMP (Universidade Estadual de Campinas - State University of Campinas).

This research, with focus in Brazilian MSW (Municipal Solid Waste), inspired several papers, lectures and specially a new book, Lixo: Cenários e Desafios (Waste: Scenarios and Challenges), launched in August 2010 at Bienal Internacional do Livro de São Paulo (São Paulo International Book Fair). In September 2011, this book was selected as finalist of the Prêmio Jabuti (the "Tortoise Prize"), the most important and well-known editorial award in Brazil.

In this same year (2011), Waldman started his second Postdoctoral Research at Faculty of Philosophy, Languages-Literature and Human Sciences, in University of São Paulo (Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da USP: FFLCH-USP[1]). The focus of this Postdoc was the Angolan basin management policy, evaluating in terms of International Relations, the role of Angola in Southern-Central Africa for the hidric resources (Postdoc More Information:[2]). Like Brazil, this country is potentially a regional and global provider of freshwater, including the virtual water, as well as bottled water or distributed through aqueducts, pipelines and tankers.

Institutionally this Postdoctoral Research was linked to FFLCH-USP Sociology Department and supported by Foundation for Research Support of the State of São Paulo (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo: FAPESP ). This work was developing under Professor Fernando Augusto Albuquerque Mourão supervision,[3] a famous Brazilian Africanist and recognized expert in International Relations and Multilateralism.

In December 2013 Waldman finished this research, and then, immediately started his third Postdoctoral Research with support of Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development: CNPq). The focus of this new Postdoc was the Incineration of municipal solid waste, Recycling management policies and the Waste picker movement, work finished in December 2015.

In 2016 Mauricio Waldman founded the Kotev publishing home in São Paulo (Editora Kotev), intending to launch e-books and e-texts with support by Kobo Platform.

Waldman translated three seminal works: An Eco Modernist Manifesto (Breakthrough Institute) from English to Portuguese (2015), El Ecologismo de los Pobres of Joan Martínez Alier (2007), from Spanish to Portuguese and Fifty Major Philosophers, of Diané Collinson (2004), From English to Portuguese.

Mauricio Waldman has been a columnist for Brazilian Media. He has published articles in Diário do Grande ABC,Cultura Verde and Ambiente Urbano. Today, he is a columnist for O Imparcial, Think & Rethink Column.

Waldman has published extensively on: Ecology, Environmental education, Water Resources, Waste Management, Development, East Timor, Israeli-Arab Wars, Racism, Judaism, Religion, Globalization, International Relations, Ecumenism, Topology, Geography, Cartography, Anthropology, Imaginary, Culture, Citizenship, Subsaharan Africa and Afro-Brazilian education, including several papers and books.

Maurício Waldman is currently a scholar, researcher, consultant and educator.

Seminal publications

Waldman launching his last book Lixo: Cenários e Desafios. São Paulo International Book Fair, 2010

Books

Publications

Waldman has written a large number of papers, scientific and technical reports, e-books and e-papers, articles, and essays, and given lectures at a variety of conferences and universities. He has also translated work by authors such as Michel Shellenberger, Tseday Alegehn, Joan Martinez Allier and Diané Collinson.

Teaching books

Manifesto

WALDMAN, Maurício. Movimento Ecológico: combativo ou de resultados? Manifesto, IV Ecological Summit of Estado de São Paulo (Outubro de 1989); revista "Teoria e Debate", nº 9, January/February 1990.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and Human Sciences | Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas". Fflch.usp.br. Retrieved 2014-02-26.
  2. ↑ "O papel de Angola na África centro-meridional: recursos h... - 11/17371-6". Bv.fapesp.br. 1996-08-20. Retrieved 2014-02-26.
  3. ↑ "Currículo do Sistema de Currículos Lattes (Fernando Augusto Albuquerque Mourao)". Buscatextual.cnpq.br. Retrieved 2014-02-26.
  4. ↑ Archived January 3, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ "Água e metrópole: limites e expectativas do tempo". Teses.usp.br. Retrieved 2014-02-26.
  6. ↑ CNRS Catalographic Data
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  11. ↑ Archived January 3, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
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