A Spring School in Political Economy and Political Ecology
A Spring School in Political Economy and Political Ecology 12-16 September 2022 Background The Institute for Poverty, Land, and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape is hosting a Spring School on The Agrarian Question and Contested Rural Futures in Africa, in collaboration with the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) at the University of […]
Plantation Knowledge: An International Workshop
Plantation Knowledge: An International Workshop 15.06.2022 The fraught and complex legacies of the plantation—historically, environmentally, socially, politically, economically—currently occupy a center stage of interdisciplinary scholarship. Site to the brutal exploitation of human and natural resources, the plantation was a veritable laboratory of new techniques of agricultural production, labor control, and carceral governance. Taking up this […]
