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Thursday, April 15, 2021
More dates through April 16, 2021
Virtual EventCo-hosted by the Cross-Border Movements Program on Migrations at Cornell University, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Cornell’s Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, this set of virtual panels brings together a diverse group of scholars, activists, and practitioners to discuss the role that plantations and plantation agriculture have played in shaping the nature, structure and dynamics of the modern era. Although plantations have long been the subject of study, the Plantationocene as a concept emerged only in the past few years to describe the role of racialized, large-scale plantation agriculture in establishing a world system that to this day lives with the legacy and continuation of slavery, forced migration, dispossession and mono-crop extractive agriculture intended for export production. The below article serves as a frame or foil for the conversation:
Wolford, Wendy, 2021 “The Plantationocene: A Lusotropical Contribution to the Theory,” Annals of the American Association of Geographers, early view online.
Over the day and a half of roundtable discussions, scholars and activists from a variety of disciplines of critical social theory and practice, including agrarian studies, political ecology, development studies, black geographies and feminist theory, will discuss the concept of the Plantationocene and to what extent this conceptional framework may be useful, not just for analytical purposes but also for activism and practice. We invite you to attend as many of these sessions as you are able. A schedule with presenters for each session will be posted on the event website shortly.
Moderator:
Wendy Wolford, Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor, Department of Global Development, Cornell University
Panelists:
Gerard Aching, Professor of Africana and Romance Studies, Cornell University
Yasmine Ahmed, Postdoctoral teaching fellow, The American University in Cairo
Sarah Besky, Associate Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
Rachel Bezner-Kerr, Professor of Global Development, Cornell University
Jun Borras, Professor of Agrarian Studies, Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, the Hague
Natacha Bruna, PhD candidate, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University, the Hague
Judith Carney, Professor of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles
Sharad Chari, Associate Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
Youjin Chung, Assistant Professor of Energy and Resources Group and Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Andrew Curley, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Arizona
Mary Jo Dudley, Director of the Cornell Farmworker Program, Cornell University
Christopher Dunn, Elizabeth Newman Wilds Executive Director of Cornell Botanic Gardens, Cornell University
Jennifer Franco, Activist and Researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI), the Hague
Jenny Goldstein, Assistant Professor of Global Development, Cornell University
Euclides Gonçalves, Director and Researcher, Kaleidoscopio, Research in Public Policy, Mozambique
Carla Gras, Researcher and Professor of Sociology, University of Buenos Aires
Julie Guthman, Professor of Social Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
Shalmali Guttal, Executive Director, Focus on the Global South, Bangkok
Tania Murray Li, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Fouad Makki, Associate Professor of Global Development, Cornell University
Priscilla McCutcheon, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Kentucky
Philip McMichael, Professor of Global Development, Cornell University
Gregg Mitman, Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History of Science, Medical History, and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Sharlene Mollett, Distinguished Professor in Feminist Cultural Geography, Nature and Society and Associate Professor of Geography, University of Toronto
João Mosca, Director, Observatório do Meio Rural, Maputo
Andrew Ofstehage, Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University
Kasia Paprocki, Assistant Professor of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
Deniz Pelek, Postdoctoral Researcher in the MIGRADEMO Project, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Nancy Peluso, Harvard J. Vaux Distinguished Professor of Forest Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Kimberly Pfeffer, Head of Research, Oxfam America
Prabhu Pingali, Professor of Applied Economics and Policy, Cornell University
Sergio Sauer, Professor in the Center for Sustainable Development, University of Brasília
Judite Stronzake, Activist in the Movement of Landless Workers (MST), Brazil and Professor of Education, Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados
Anna Tsing, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Michael Watts, Chancellor’s Professor of Geography Emeritus, and Co-Director of Development Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Wendy Wolford, Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development, Cornell University
Yunan Xu, Post-doctoral researcher, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam
Dial-In Information
Registration link to be added.
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Latin American Studies Program, Institute for African Development, Global Cornell, Institute for European Studies, Migrations, Global Development, South Asia Program
Scott Beemer
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