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Political ecologies seminar series
About the Political ecologies seminar series
The « Political ecologies (in the plural) seminar series » invites inquiries that are multiple, overlapping, converging, and contradictory, drawing upon approaches and practices ranging from multi-species to historical, anthropological, and ecological to agricultural. This seminar series sits in this generative space between and across fields - and asks what political ecology is and can be (as a community of practice) of people using political ecology approaches. Each semester, the seminar series invites scholars, practitioners, and activists from many traditions to share their research - in theory and practice.
2024 - Thinking without: Neglected plants, people and animals in industrial, urban and environmental planning
Every scientific and development project selectively focuses on certain elements while neglecting others, affecting the position of both human and non-human groups within each project. This political ecology series will explore what planners, developers, scientists, or other actors have neglected or explicitly excluded from their plans. How have these actors thought with, without, or against animals, plants, and human communities? Looking at a variety of places and scales, speakers will analyze the process by which elements are deemed important to protect, produce, and organize, or ignored. They will investigate a range of initiatives, spanning from nature conservation to agricultural development and urban planning, to examine how the existence of humans and non-humans is enabled or prevented in scientific and political spaces.
Contact : Aurore Rimlinger (aurore.rimlinger@unil.ch)
Detailed informations are published in our agenda
- Tuesday, February 20, 2024 at 11h00 CET: "Political ecology of caterpillar fungus and participatory conservation in the Nepal Himalaya" with PhD student Phurwa Dhondup Gurung, University of Colorado, USA (virtual)
- Tuesday March 05, 2024 at 15h00 CET: "Ghana and China in a rosewood 'affair': Strategies and dynamics" with PhD student Anthony Baidoo, AgroParisTech & IRD, UMR SENS, France (hybrid)
- Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 15h00 CET: "(In)visible labor, discretionary power: Mapping the work of incarcerated firefighting in plantation nature" with Prof. Leigh Johnson, University of Oregon, USA (hybrid)
- Tuesday April 02, 2024 at 15h00 CET: "Gouverner par le feu: brûler l’ivoire pour sauver les éléphants?" with Dr. Symphorien Ongolo, IRD, UMR SENS, France (virtual)
- Tuesday April 16, 2024 at 15:00 CET: "Making the "Sea of Islands" a forest: Logics of afforestation and monoculture in the Aral Sea region of Uzbekistan" with Prof. Kate Shields, Rhodes College, USA (virtual)
- Monday April 29, 2024 at 10:15 CET // postponed: "Politics of Chronic Liminality: Forests and marginalization in Southern Africa" with Prof. Frank Matose, University of Capetown, South Africa (hybrid)
- Tuesday April 30, 2024 at 15:00 CET: "De la négation à un début de reconnaissance des droits des peuples autochtones en Guyane française" with Dr. Damien Davy, CNRS, USR LEEISA, France (hybrid)
- Tuesday May 14, 2024 at 15:00 CET: "The political ecology of agricultural weeds and weeding" with Dr. Lucía Argüelles, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain (virtual)
- Tuesday May 28, 2024 at 15:00 CET: "Deciphering environmental justice in ecological restoration governance in Rwanda", with Prof. Jacqueline Loos, University Lüneburg, Germany (hybrid)
2022-2023 : « Thinking with Plants and Animals »
Spices, cattle, trees, parrots, and tigers… what does it mean for Political ecology and related fields to think with plants and animals? The speakers in this series speak to a variety of themes that place more-than-human actors at the center of their inquiries of conservation, supply chains, food, and medicine. Join us for presentations and discussion with scholars from a range of approaches as we continue to explore the many stakes and priorities of Political ecologies.
Detailed informations are published in our agenda
- 04.04.2023 // Contested tigers, borderlands and ‘development' in Northeast India, Sahil Nijhawan
- 14.03.2023 // The Kola Nut in the Atlantic World: Consumption Cultures and Diasporic Mobilities, Shantel George
- 31.01.2023 // The Bird Ring: access, technologies, endorsements, and intransigence in the spatialization of neotropical parrots, Lydia Gibson
- 12.12.2022 // Rosewood: Endangered species conservation and the rise of global China, Annah Zhu
- 10.11.2022 // Cattle and the Contradictions of Land Use Change in Amazonian Development, Susanna Hecht
- 08.11.2022 // A Planetary History of Botanical Gardens and Parks, Melanie Boehi & Luciano Concheiro San Vicente
- 11.10.2022 // Spices: Livelihood uncertainties and trade entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese uplands, Sarah Turner
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