[Commlist] Environmental Justice and Alternatives to Development in Latin America: Knowledge, Narratives and Cultural Production

*Environmental Justice and Alternatives to Development in Latin America: 
Knowledge, Narratives and Cultural Production*

*An interdisciplinary workshop*

*Friday 6 March, 2020*

*CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies/Leicester 
Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Leicester*

This one-day workshop will explore current environmental conflicts, 
environmental justice movements, and alternatives to development in 
Latin America from the perspectives of narrative, knowledge production, 
and creative practice.

To that end, researchers from across the sciences and the arts and 
humanities will come together to exchange perspectives and collectively 
think about the role that cultural production has in the representation 
of conflicts, but also in the production of knowledge and of socialities 
in a context of environmental degradation and urgent need for systemic 
change.

The workshop will consist of presentations by guest speakers, workshop 
sessions with short paper presentations followed by discussion, and a 
masterclass on research, activism and knowledge production in 
environmental conflicts led by Dr Gabriela Merlinsky, Researcher at 
CONICET (Argentina), and Head of the Environmental Studies Group at Gino 
Germani Research Institute, University of Buenos Aires.

Other confirmed speakers:

  * Dr Sara Mingorría (Scholar-activist at ICTA-UAB and FRACTAL
    Collective): “Transcultural expressions in environmental justice
    movements”
  * Dr David Dumoulin (Associate Professor and Adjunct Director at
    CREDA, IHEAL, Paris III): “The aesthetics of tropical biology
    stations: A particular idea of Nature”
  * Dr Paula Serafini (CAMEo Research Institute, University of
    Leicester): “Extractivism and cultural production”

For more information and to see the call for papers, see 
https://le.ac.uk/cameo/cameo-events/env-just-and-alt-to-dev

This event is hosted by CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media 
Economies <https://le.ac.uk/cameo>, University of Leicester, and kindly 
supported by the Institute of Latin American Studies 
<https://ilas.sas.ac.uk/>, University of London, and the Leicester 
Institute for Advanced Studies 
<https://le.ac.uk/research/areas/institutes/institute-advanced-studies>, 
University of Leicester.


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