Event Details

‘Conversations in Political Ecology’ invites speakers from different backgrounds engage in dialogue around political ecology approaches

In this seminar, the speakers will share their personal reflections on being ‘scholar-activists’ and how they see that conversations on decolonisation need to begin with the researcher’s positionality as a prerequisite to decolonising the discipline of Political Ecology.

Speakers

Luciana Mendes Barbosa

Luciana is a critical human geographer passionate about socio-environmental conflicts due to development/green/climate adaptation projects in the Global South, focusing on both urban and rural areas. Having recently concluded her PhD in Geography at Lancaster University, Luciana’s research is focused on understanding the intersection of precarity, (climatic) disaster, urban resilience policy, and (in) justices in the contemporary wave of forced displacements in urban informal settlements in Brazil.

Vijay Kolinjivadi (he/him)

Vijay is above all a brother, friend, partner, son, neighbour, and uncle. He is also a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp. His research explores the uneven environments generated from "greening" interventions like payments for ecosystem services (PES) in North America and in Central and South Asia. His current research explores how spatial and temporal processes of dehumanization and ecological simplification that characterize plantation ecologies are both resisted and reinforced through “green” thinking.

Moderator

Giovanni Bettini

Giovanni is a lecturer at Lancaster Environment Centre. His research is situated at the intersection of Political Geography, Environmental Humanities and Critical Development Studies with a focus on human migration, the Anthropocene and digital environmental governance.

Did you know that Lancaster University is launching a brand new Masters in Political Ecology? The UK's first programme of its type, you'll be able to learn about and shape debates like these that are so central to understanding the politics of human-environment relations. For more information, please contact John Childs (j.childs@lancaster.ac.uk).