GSSC Public Lecture: Painting the Political in Oceanian Textile Cultures: Collectivity, Syncretism and Globalization
Painting the Political in Oceanian Textile Cultures: Collectivity, Syncretism and Globalization Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll University of Birmingham Art practices in the Pacific islands complicate any neat classification as either craft, contemporary art or traditional ritual, individually or collectively authored. These binaries of commodification can be productively updated through global examples that are linked by […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Crisis Conservation -Resource Extraction, Wildlife Crime and the Violent Frontiers of Saving Nature
Crisis Conservation: Resource Extraction, Wildlife Crime and the Violent Frontiers of Saving Nature Bram Buscher Wageningen University In this presentation, I will discuss the impacts of the current surge in large-scale resource extraction and wildlife crime, and the conservation responses they elicit. Recent political ecology literature points at three reasons why this surge differs […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Urban Gardening in Southeast Asia – Pre-/Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Ideas of Urbanism
Urban Gardening in Southeast Asia: Pre-/Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Ideas of Urbanism Sandra Kurfürst University of Cologne, Germany This paper investigates the precolonial and colonial legacies of urban gardens in Southeast Asia, linking these legacies to current trends of urban gardening. In Southeast Asian cities, agricultural subsistence production has long been associated with […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Conserving Urban Greens in Indian Cities – Opportunities and Challenges
Conserving Urban Greens in Indian Cities: Opportunities and Challenges Shamita Kumar BVIEER, Pune, India Biodiversity conservation in India, a global biodiversity hotspot and also home to one sixth of the world’s human population on 2.4 percent of the global landmass, is an immensely challenging task. India is stated to have 87 metropolitan cities by […]
