D (Daniela) Pessoa de Goes Calmon

Biography

Daniela Calmon is a PhD Researcher in the Political Ecology Research Group at the International Institute of Social Studies. She is a late-stage PhD candidate currently writing her dissertation. Her main research focuses on the interplay of strategies, discourses, symbols, and imaginaries of multinational corporations and investors involved in natural resource sectors with those of transnational environmental and social movements and civil society networks. Her region of focus is the transition of the Amazon and Cerrado in Northern Brazil (Maranhão, Piauí and Pará), especially through their connection to multi-scalar climate and land politics.
She also completed her MA in Development Studies at ISS, with her Master's thesis focusing on the shifts and political strategies deployed in the creation of the Matopiba soybean frontier, and has a Bachelor of Law from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in Brazil. Her current broader research interests include corporate politics, frontier-making, critical discourse analysis, eco-fiction, and interplay of myths and metaphors.