PhD defence by Ms Zoe Brent

In much of the global North, the continued decline in agrarian jobs and depopulation of rural areas is increasingly discussed by policymakers, and the media as a crisis of generational renewal, which affects the majority of the European region (especially the west) and also the future of the food system.

She suggests that this crisis of generational renewal is actually a symptom of broader ecological and political crises, as well as a crisis of social reproduction. Emerging efforts to overcome barriers to generational renewal are framed as one among many collective mobilizations responding to ecological, political and social crises more broadly. We are living in a global moment when the need for systemic transformation in order to ensure the survival of the planet and the majority of the people living on it in increasingly evident.

Doctoral Board

Chair

Professor Arjun Bedi

Doctoral dissertation supervisors

Professor Murat Arsel- International Institute of Social Studies

Co- supervisors

Dr Mamen Cuellar Padilla- Universidad de Córdoba

Dr Mindi Schneider- Brown University

Full Doctoral Committee

Dr Sue Ferguson, Wilfrid Laurier University

Professor Sharryn M. Kasmir, Hofstra University

Professor Annette Desmarais, University of Manitoba

Dr Elisa Oteros-Rozas, Cordoba University

Dr Stefania Barca, University of Santiago de Compostela

Professor Wendy Harcourt, International Institute of Social Studies

Dr Helena Perez, International Institute of Social Studies