A conversation with the Brazilian researcher Larissa Bombardi, which will take place in Portugal at the city of Coimbra, Portugal, on 9 September 2025 at 18:00 at Liquidâmbar (Praça da República).
Larissa Bombardi is a geographer, a researcher at the Agroecology Laboratory of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) on the Friction project, and a professor on leave from the Department of Geography at the University of São Paulo (USP).
She is the author of the atlas “Geography of Pesticide Use in Brazil and Connections with the European Union”, released in 2019 in its English edition in Europe (Scotland and Germany), and “Geography of Asymmetries: the Vicious Circle of Pesticides and Colonialism in the Trade Relationship between Mercosur and the European Union”, launched in 2021 at the European Parliament.
Following the publication of this atlas, Larissa was targeted by a disinformation campaign aimed at undermining her credibility and career. Alongside the smear campaign, her home was broken into and she received several other threats.
She is also the author of the book “Pesticides and Chemical Colonialism”, released in 2023 in Portuguese and published in French (“Pesticides – Um colonialisme Chimique”) in 2024.
Organised by: The Thematic Section on the Political Economy of Science and Technology of the Portuguese Association of Political Economy, in partnership with ENSSER – the European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility, and the Ecology and Society Workshop of the Centre for Social Studies.