Honduras Mapping Project (Photo by Sharlene Mollett)
December 1-2: The group hosts two events with Sharlene Mollett, Centre for Critical Development Studies|Department of Human Geography at UTSC, on The Banality of Land Grabs in Latin America.
Sharlene Mollett has worked extensively among Afro-Latin American communities in Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, exploring questions of race, gender and land/territory. Christian Lentz (Geography) and Chris Courtheyn (Geography) will offer short commentaries after the talk. Time and place: Monday, December 1, 2014, 3:15p.m. – 5:00p.m.4th Floor FedEx Global Education Center,301 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill, NC. We will also hold a workshop on race, racialization, and environment in Latin America. These workshops encourage interdisciplinary conversations. Time and place: Tuesday, December 2, 2014, 1pm-3pm. Saunders Conference Room, 321.
Thursday February 5, 3:30-4:45 pm
Images and Nature: The artwork of Sandra Lopez
2008-2010 Global Education Center (FedEx Building).
Sandra Lopez is a visual artist and sculptress from Bogota. She currently resides in Puebla, Mexico, where she is doing a graduate program in art and aesthetics. Her work explores
the role of technical images in framing humans’ understanding of nature, and the ecological potential of visual arts through relational approaches.
February 19, 3-5pm, Hitchcock Room – Stone Center
Racialized Spaces and Proper Places: Frantz Fanon, Decolonization, and the Rise of New Territorialities Alvaro Reyes, Department of Geography, Institute of African American Research faculty fellow
Friday, March 27, 2:30pm, FedEx Building, Room 1005.
Cartographies of Extractivism in Latin America, a workshop with Fernando Garcia, FLACSO-Ecuador. More information coming soon.
March 26-28: Race and Rurality in the Global Economy. Duke University, West Duke Building, Room 101.
Convened by: Michaeline A. Crichlow and Anne-Maria Makhulu, Duke University
Workshop Description: This day and a half workshop will examine the contemporary state of development, and the fluid zones of rurality in the world economy through the optic of raciality. The arguments considered will pivot on heightened risks and multiple states of insecurity being faced given the forces of globalization and environmental change, and the steady decline in the livelihoods of people of color globally, their deepened vulnerabilities, and the complex reconstitution of systemic and lived racialization within this process.
Our last event of the semester: Two talks by Eduardo Gudynas!
Eduardo Gudynas
Centro Latinoamericano de Ecología Social, Montevideo
May 5 & 7, 2015
1) Buen Vivir and Nature’s Rights: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Tuesday, May 5, 3:00-4:30pm, GEC 4003
2) Workshop on “Transitions towards Alternatives to Development: Post-extractivism beyond Capitalism and Socialism”
With responses by Gabriela Valdivia (Geography, UNC)
and Dana Powell (Anthropology, Appalachian State University, Boone)
Thursday, May 7, 2:00-4:30, GEC 4003
Reception to Follow
Description of the events: The first event discusses prevailing trends on the concept of Buen Vivir (BV), including its origins in radical development critiques in the Andean countries; its re-appropriation by the region’s progressive governments; ethical and political debates around BV and critiques from modernist perspectives; and the limits and possibilities of linking BV with other critical notions, such as degrowth. Concrete examples will be drawn from Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru. The second event examines transitions to post-extractivism as a concrete attempt at bringing about alternatives to development focused on BV. It analyzes the radical objectives that can be imagined within a transitional democratic framework, and identifies differences with related proposals, such as the transition town initiatives, degrowth, and Sustainable Europe.
About Eduardo Gudynas: Eduardo is Director of the Latin American Center for Social Ecology (CLAES – Centro Latino Americano de Ecología Social), Montevideo, Uruguay. He has been Visiting Professor at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo. His current appointments include: Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis; Coordinator, Latin American Alliance of Critical Studies on Development (ALECD); and member of the Expert Group on Alternatives to Development, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Quito. Besides maintaining a very active lecturing circuit at universities in Europe and the Americas, and a program of workshops and meetings with civil society and social movement organizations, Eduardo is an extremely prolific writer. His two most recent books summarized his work of many years and the continental debates of last decade on Buen Vivir, the Rights of Nature, and transitions to post-extractivism. See: Gudynas, E. 2014. Derechos de la Naturaleza y políticas ambientales. La Paz: Plural (1st ed.); and Gudynas, E. 2015. Extractivismos. Ecología y economía política de un modo de entender el desarrollo y la Naturaleza.Cochabamba: CEDIB (1st ed.). Both books have separate editions in Perú, Colombia and Argentina.
Sponsored by: The Latin American Social Cartographies Working Group, Carolina Seminar on the Theory and Politics of Relationality, Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA), and Curriculum in Global Studies .
Class of 1989 William C. Friday Distinguished Professor
