[Online event] Ibero-American Dialogues on eco-social perspectives and practices

The academic journal  Iberoamérica Social is organizing the first edition of “Diálogos Iberoamericanos“, a virtual venue to learn about the work of researchers in social sciences. On this occasion, scholars from different countries will be speaking about socio-environmental conflicts in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Date: February 12, 2021.

Time: 14h Mexico / 17h Brazil / 21h Spain.

You can join and get more information about this event through Facebook and/or YouTube.

Presenter: Raul Olmedo (UNAM, Mex)

Discussant: Adriana P. Gómez Bonilla (UAM-Iztapalapa, Mex)

Panelists:

Socio-environmental conflicts in Latin America and the Caribbean: A regional analysis from a Political Ecology perspective, Marx José Gómez Liendo (IVIC, Ven).

Cerro de Pasco and the development paradox: Imagining a transition to post-extractivism for a territory dependant on extractivism, Flavio Vila Skrzypek (UCAL, Perú).

Effects of hydroelectric megaprojects on indigenous gastronomy. The case of the San Felipe Usila municipality, Oaxaca Mexico, Carolina Mejía Martínez (Mexico).

Social nature, social divides and social media: an insight into tourism development in Argentinean highlands, Yancen Diemberger (Univ. of Exeter, Eng).

The mass-media in the disputes about nature. A theoretical-methodological design for the study of socio-environmental conflict in digital newspaper sources, Maryhlda Victoria Rivero Corona (IVIC, Ven).

Global Extraction Film Festival (GEFF) 2020

*this is a repost of the article at https://www.caribbeancreativity.nl/events/global-extraction-film-festival-2020/

Streaming Online | July 16-20, 2020 | #FocusOnGlobalExtraction | #GlobalExtractionAction

The 1st Global Extraction Film Festival, streaming online from July 16-20, 2020, is free to the public worldwide. Curated and hosted by Esther Figueroa, environmental filmmaker based in Jamaica and Emiel Martens, founding director of Caribbean Creativity based in the Netherlands, GEFF 2020 is part of a movement to bring attention to both long standing and newly evolving threats from global extraction.

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Online conference: “Extraction: Tracing the Veins”

Free online conference on the political ecology of extraction: 29th June-10th July 

Massey University Political Ecology Research Centre and Wageningen University welcomes you to the free online conference “Extraction: Tracing the Veins”, kicking off on the 29th of June. The conference features more than 80 presentations from around the world spanning extractive policy, indigenous knowledge extraction, resistances to extraction, artistic responses to extraction, data extraction and more. 

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