3 short talks from Latin America on culture, environment, & policy
Venue
CMB Seminar Room 4Description
About the Event
This 2 hour seminar brings together professors of social science at Latin American universities to present their current research, and explore overlapping themes of conflict and creation in Latin American environmentalism and community building.
Speaker Bios
Mark Aspinwall is Professor of International Studies at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City, and member of the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, as well as Emeritus Member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers. His research interests are in rule of law, environmental governance in Latin America, and socio-environmental conflict in the Global South.
Jorge Mattar Villela is Professor of social anthropology at UFSC, Brazil, a researcher at the Nucleo de Anthropologia da Política, and co-organiser of the Hybris Research Group on Power Relations, Conflicts and Socialities.
Ana Claudia Duarte Rocha Marques is Professor of social anthropology at USP, Brazil and co-organiser of Hybris Research Group on Power Relations. Her ethnographic research in the backlands of Pernambuco and in the mid-north of Mato Grosso explores relations of solidarity and conflict involving families and extended collectivities, especially their political and economic consequences.
Key speakers
- Mark Aspinwall, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico
- Jorge Mattar Villela, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
- Ana Claudia Duarte Rocha Marques, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil