Environmental Studies Colloquium series: 'Critical Engagements with the Green Economy'
Fourth and final colloquium: 19 and 20 November 2012
'Bodies, Technologies and Resources: Deepening Conversations on Gender and the Green Economy'
Introduction
The ISS-HIVOS-SID NL colloquia throughout 2012 have been discussing how the concept of the ‘green economy’ requires policy commensurate with social, gender aware and environmental justice.
The final Colloquium will push deeper into the debate by looking at how to bring together alternative policy that recognizes and respects gender and equitable social and ecological arrangements that are grounded in pluri-versal understandings of sustainability.
It will debate the tradeoffs, the possibilities and the changes needed in order to build a future that is based on democratically engendered, ecological ways of living.
Conversations
This final colloquium will include two 'facilitated conversations' in which two people are asked to lead the conversation in a series of two-hour sessions in an informal workshop environment.
19 November – Conversation One
- What are our sites of negotiation around bodies, technologies and resources?
- How can we ensure that gender really matters at all levels of environmental analysis and policy when social inclusion is inferred?
- How can we can better understand and transform relations of power that interweave gender, environments and subjects into complex, multi-sited, multi-scaled ecologies?
- How can we challenge gendered, class-based, and racialized processes of differentiation, exclusion, and domination in the environmental issues and resource politics that inform the green economy discourse?
20 November - Conversation Two
- How do we situate ourselves within the Rio+20 debates/ policies that are setting out to ‘green’ the economy?
- What are the analytical tools that allow feminist scholars, practitioners, activists, and citizens to approach gender and environment work in the post Rio+20 era?
- How can we create alliances and coalitions across our multiple forms of geographical and social differences among academe and activists?
Registration
Registration is free via registration@sidnl.org
Please mention the name and date of event in the subject line of your email when registering.
Programme
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Participants
Atila Roque (Executive Director of Amnesty International Brazil)
Bina Di Costa (ANU visiting fellow at Oxford University)
Dianne Rocheleau (Clark University),
Giovanna Di Chiro (Swarthmore College)
Andrea Nightingale (University of Edinburgh)
Khawar Mumtaz (Shirkat Gah Pakistan)
Michal Osterweil (UNC Chapel Hill)
Christa Wichterich (WIDE + Germany)
Catherine Walsh (Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar in Quito, Ecuador)
Yvonne Underhill Sem (University of Auckland)
Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace International, NL
Leila Harris, University of British Colombia
Anita Nayar, DAWN
Organizers
Wendy Harcourt ISS
Ingrid Nelson ISS
Josine Stremmelaar Hivos
Eva van der Sleen Hivos
