Workshop: Capitalism, Fascism, and the Environment
Capitalism, Fascism, and the Environment 3 – 4 July 2023 Workshop of the EASA Network Anthropology of Fascisms (ANTHROFA), EASA Anthropology of Economy Network (AoE) Capitalism has produced ongoing environmental crises. Degradation, mass extinction, and violent conflict about resources dominate the relations between ecology, communities, and economy. While the signs of environmental collapse appear as […]
MESH Greenroots / GSSC Seminar Series: Work-in-Progress Seminar – Zooming out | Peripheral Places and the Planetary Novel in Latin AmericaMESH Greenroots / GSSC Seminar Series:
MESH Green Shoots Work-in-Progress Seminar: Zooming out | Peripheral Places and the Planetary Novel in Latin America Professor Dr Bieke Willem (University of Cologne) December 6, 2022 | 12.00 – 13.00 | GSSC, 3.03(Classen-Kappelmann-Str. 24, 3rd floor, 50931 Cologne) Grasping the Anthropocene through the lens of the Humanities means not only being able to imagine scales of […]
Network retreat at Steinfeld Abbey
Our retreat was a foundational event for this research network: our diverse group of researchers, and including Critical Friends from Latin America, India, China, Southeast Asia and Europe, had the opportunity to envision and design composition, program and methodology of this network in a series of focused workshops. Shortly before Christmas at a quaint, historical […]
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 […]
