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In this seminar, the speakers draw on their respective academic and advocacy experiences to reflect on how a Feminist Political Ecology lens furthers understanding of people-environment relations and address the potential and challenges of applying a feminist political approach to positive change.

In this seminar series, ‘Conversations in Political Ecology’, speakers from different backgrounds engage in dialogue around a number of contemporary political ecology approaches and applications.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 13:00-14:00 GMT.

Feminist Political Ecology

A recording of the session is now available on YouTube: Conversations in Political Ecology Seminar: Feminist Political Ecology

Seema Kulkarni is one of the founding members of Society for Promoting Participative Eco-system Management, in Pune India (SOPPECOM). She is presently a Senior Fellow in SOPPECOM, and co-ordinates the gender and rural livelihoods activities within the organisation. She has co-ordinated various studies and programmes around decentralisation, gender and land, water and sanitation. She has published several articles/book chapters around issues of gender, water, sanitation and rural livelihoods.

Margreet Zwarteveen is a Professor of Water Governance at IHE-Delft and the University of Amsterdam. Trained as both an irrigation engineer and a social scientist, Margreet is interested in water allocation policies, technologies and practices, and the knowledges that justify or inform these. She focuses her research and education on questions of (gender-) equity and justice.

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 about the Masters programme, please contact Frances Cleaver (f.cleaver@lancaster.ac.uk) and John Childs (j.childs@lancaster.ac.uk)