Dr. Trevor Birkenholtz – March 11
Water, Women and Rights: Rural Water Supplies, Drip Irrigation, and the (Re)Feminization of Agrarian Labor in India In this presentation, Dr. Trevor Birkenholtz argues that there is a (re)feminization of domestic and agrarian labor in the rural Global South as a result of inconsistent water development programs. Drawing on a case from northwestern India, he discusses […]
“Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier” with Dr. Tania Li – February 25 and 26
The Ecologies of Social Difference Working Group is hosting Dr. Tania Li from the University of Toronto at UBC on February 25th and 26th. As part of this visit, we’ve organized several events of particular interest for graduate students in addition to her scheduled lecture. 1) Dr Li’s public lecture: “Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on […]
International Dimensions of Environmental Justice seminar course with Prof. L. Harris
Spaces still available in this term 2 seminar, open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Please feel free to email L. Harris directly with any questions about the course. lharris@ires.ubc.ca T2, Winter 2014, Tuesdays, 2-5 pm, 107 AERL, 2202 Main Mall COURSE DESCRIPTION This course will investigate the international, and justice, dimensions of a number of environmental issues, […]
Land Trees and Tenure with Prof. Janette Bulkan
Course description ‘European legal theory understood the right of property as the control over things. Since at least Montesquieu, this private right (dominium in Roman law) was contrasted with sovereignty (imperium), or the rule over people. Property belonged to individuals, while sovereignty was the power of the state. But in practice, in both Europe and Egypt, […]
Botanically Queer: Plants, Sex, and Biopolitics
Dr. Catriona Sandilands: Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University Plants have been profoundly queer players in modern projects of describing “life” for ethical and political consideration. From their taxonomic destabilizations of colonial order in the eighteenth century to their questionings of agency in recent posthumanist discourses, plants demand that we think about living, being, and becoming […]
