About the Political ecologies seminar series
The « Political ecologies (in the plural) seminar series » invites inquiries that are multiple, overlapping, converging, and contradictory, drawing upon approaches and practices ranging from multi-species to historical, anthropological, and ecological to agricultural. This seminar series sits in this generative space between and across fields - and asks what political ecology is and can be (as a community of practice) of people using political ecology approaches. Each semester, the seminar series invites scholars, practitioners, and activists from many traditions to share their research - in theory and practice.
Contact : Samantha Sithole (samantha.sithole@unil.ch)
2022-2023 : « Thinking with Plants and Animals »
Spices, cattle, trees, parrots, and tigers… what does it mean for Political ecology and related fields to think with plants and animals? The speakers in this series speak to a variety of themes that place more-than-human actors at the center of their inquiries of conservation, supply chains, food, and medicine. Join us for presentations and discussion with scholars from a range of approaches as we continue to explore the many stakes and priorities of Political ecologies.
Detailed informations are published in our agenda
- 04.04.2023 // Contested tigers, borderlands and ‘development' in Northeast India, Sahil Nijhawan
- 14.03.2023 // The Kola Nut in the Atlantic World: Consumption Cultures and Diasporic Mobilities, Shantel George
- 31.01.2023 // The Bird Ring: access, technologies, endorsements, and intransigence in the spatialization of neotropical parrots, Lydia Gibson
- 12.12.2022 // Rosewood: Endangered species conservation and the rise of global China, Annah Zhu
- 10.11.2022 // Cattle and the Contradictions of Land Use Change in Amazonian Development, Susanna Hecht
- 08.11.2022 // A Planetary History of Botanical Gardens and Parks, Melanie Boehi & Luciano Concheiro San Vicente
- 11.10.2022 // Spices: Livelihood uncertainties and trade entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese uplands, Sarah Turner
Printemps 2022
2018 - 2020 // Archives « Bouillon d'idées »