主 题 农村发展中的差错、偏见与盲点：超越“以末为先” TOPIC Knowing and not Knowing – Errors, Biases and Blind Spots: from Putting the Last First to Can We Know Better? and Beyond 主讲人 罗伯特·钱伯斯，英国社会科学院院士, 苏塞克斯大学发展研究所教授 SPEAKER Robert Chambers, Fellow of British Academy of Social Sciences; Research Associate and Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK 主持人 叶敬忠，中国农业大学人文与发展学院教授、院长 CHAIR Ye Jingzhong,…
Agrarian Politics Episode 6: Political Ecology: Society, nature and the commons Inequality and injustice cannot be resolved within society without also confronting the destructive and exploitative relations between society and nature. This is a key argument within political ecology, an interdisciplinary approach that challenges ideas among radical thinkers in critical agrarian studies. In this episode,…
We are witnessing a new momentum in critical agrarian studies. In the last two decades, multiple crises around food, feed, fuel, natural resources extractivism, land, finance, labor, migration, environment and human rights have converged. All of these contribute to global resource grabbing in an era of capitalism and climate change which affect the most vulnerable…
Mexico is a diverse country and as such, each region is coping with COVID19 in different ways with the resources they have. Today, I will describe the coping mechanisms of my hometown, Tamazulapam Mixe, a little indigenous community located in the mountains of “Sierra Norte” in Oaxaca, Mexico. Many people know us as ‘the never…
On 30 March 2020 Zimbabwe, a country of 14.3 million people, the government responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by imposing a mandatory lockdown for 21 days. This mandatory lockdown movement was only restricted to essential service providers; health care, security services and agriculture were designated as part of the essential services. Two days later the…