Practice of mapping environmental conflicts – Daniela Del Bene and Arnim Scheidel Thursday 9th July, 15.00-17.00, UAB Campus In this second session on the EJatlas, the group of participants will be split into two. In one group we will work on the cases of environmental conflict suggested by the participants themselves and add them to the…
Category: Lectures
Glocal environmental justice
Glocal environmental justice – Mariana Walter and Marta Conde (ICTA-UAB) Wednesday 8th July, 12.00-13.30, UAB Campus In the first part of the class we will introduce some features of large-scale mining and its related social, environmental and economic pressures. We will carry out an overview of the evolution of resistance to mining movements, its main motivations, demands…
Thinking degrowth from the global South
Thinking degrowth from the global South – Alberto Acosta (economist and politician, Ecuador) Wednesday 8th July, 10.00-13.30, UAB Campus Imagining an economy beyond growth is one of the great challenges of our times, to prevent a social and environmental debacle which could threaten humanity itself. There is a correspondence between debates on degrowth in the…
Mapping environmental conflicts
Mapping environmental conflicts – Daniela Del Bene (ICTA-UAB) Tuesday 7th July, 12.00-13.30, UAB Campus In this session we will present the overall process of mapping environmental conflicts at EJatlas at the EJOLT project. We’ll define such conflicts from a perspective of the social metabolism and environmental justice and will briefly go through some of the most…
Collaborative research for environmental justice
Collaborative research for environmental justice – the EJOLT experience – Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos (ICTA-UAB) Tuesday 7th July, 10.00-11.30, UAB Campus The emerging paradigm of collaborative research involves both researchers and non-researchers in close co-operative engagement. It encompasses an ample range of approaches, frameworks and methods, from interdisciplinary collaboration to transdisciplinary deliberation and citizen participation. Supported by…
Environmental justice, ecologism of the poor and degrowth
Environmental justice, ecologism of the poor and degrowth – Joan Martinez-Alier (ICTA-UAB) Monday 6th July, 10.00 – 11.30, UAB Campus The words ‘‘environmental justice’’ were initially used in the United States in the early 1980s for local complaints against ‘‘environmental racism,’’ i.e., the disproportionate pollution burdens in areas primarily inhabited by disadvantaged ethnic groups….
waste in naples
Waste in Naples – Giacomo D’Alisa (University of Rome Sapienza and ICTA-UAB) Friday 10th July, 16.30-17.10, Can Masdéu (Barcelona) The waste crisis in Campania has inspired a vast amount of studies. Nevertheless, very little research has been done to explain the figures of waste generation and disposal in the region. The analyses carried out…
degrowth-setting the stage
Degrowth: setting the stage – Filka Sekulova (ICTA-UAB) Monday 6th July, 12.00-13.30, UAB Campus This semi-introductory explorative lecture will set the stage for the summer school, bringing the seeds of the discussions yet to come and knitting the logical (and illogical) threads between the analytical and prescriptive elements of degrowth. Starting with the common misinterpretations and…
Welcome event
Sunday 25th July, 16.30-21.00 – Parc of Collserola (Barcelona) The Welcome Event will take place in the Parc of Collserola, the natural park surrounding Barcelona. The spot is in between Barcelona city centre and the UAB Campus and you can easily reach it by train from Plaza Catalunya in about 30 minutes. You should take…
Degrowth and the new left
Degrowth and the new left: trapped between anti-austerity and pro-growth politics? – Federico Demaria (ICTA-UAB) Tuesday 14th July, 12.00-13.30 – Cerbère (France) A new Left, new in terms of ideas, but also in terms of the young age of its members, is rising in Europe, from Spain and Catalonia, to Greece, Slovenia or Croatia. Will that…