The Green Economy - two new international conferences

Two conferences inspired by ISS' 2011 Nature™ Inc conference

The Nature™ Inc conference aimed to deepen and share critical knowledge on market-based environmental policies and practices and nature-society relations.

Inspired by and building on discussions held during this event, two new conferences are being organized to further develop the themes and ideas it spawned.

Old Land - New Practices? The Changing Face of Land and Conservation in Postcolonial Africa

11–14 September 2012, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

This conference aims to contribute to the development and sharing of knowledge and expertise with an explicitly pan-African focus.

Specifically, it seeks to critically engage with the nexus between post-colonial land use changes and the development of conservation initiatives across the continent at both the theoretical and practical level with cognisance of their historical precedence.

Bram Büscher, Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development at ISS and organizer of the Nature™ Inc conference will present a paper at this conference.

Grabbing Green - Questioning the Green Economy

17 May – 19 May 2013, University of Toronto, Canada

The conference seeks to explore the more systemic dimensions involved in the production, circulation and consumption of 'The Green Economy', and the neoliberal ‘logics’ within environmental policy, conservation, development, and business that are mobilizing it. 

The topic of this conference is also reflected in a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies (Vol.39/2)