Environmental Conflicts & the Public Debate on Development in Argentina & Latin America
6-7.30pm, Thursday 20th July 2017
Room G34, Institute of Latin American Studies, Ground Floor: Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
Organised by: Institute of Latin American Studies. Argentina Solidarity Campaign. Argentina Research Network. Dr Paula Serafini (University of Leicester).
Speaker: Dr Gabriela Merlinsky (CONICET; Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, University of Buenos Aires).
Chaired by: Dr Daniel Ozarow (Argentina Research Network, Middlesex University, London).
This talk will explore the intersections between environmental conflicts and debates on development in Latin America. In these countries, environmental conflicts bring about debates regarding productive models and their long-term social and environmental consequences. Considering the growing relevance of these matters in public debates, Dr Merlinsky will examine how environmental conflicts generate turning points in the construction of development narratives.
It will address a series of important questions regarding environmental conflicts and development in Argentina and Latin America: What are the most long-lasting consequences of these conflicts in terms of the inscription of environmental issues in public debate? How do these new social and political ways of constructing the environmental question enable the elaboration of different models of contesting and/or justifying social inequalities? How does collective action contribute to a redefinition of common good and common goods?
Drawing on over ten years of research in the field, these questions will be explored through a number of case studies that look at how environmental conflicts generate turning points in each community or region’s lines of historical development, and bring about debates regarding productive models and their impacts on the present and future equality of societies.
The event is free, open to the public, and all are welcome! Please register at:
https://environmental-conflicts-and-development.eventbrite.co.uk
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Dr. Daniel Ozarow
Senior Lecturer (Research & Teaching) in HRM
Department of Management, Leadership & Organisations.
Deputy Head - Latin American Studies Research Group
Middlesex University Business School, The Burroughs, London, NW4 4BT, UK
T: +44 (0) 208 411 3535
W: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/ozarow-daniel
Convenor - Argentina Research Network UK http://argentinaresearchnetwork.wordpress.com/
Chair - Jubilee Debt Campaign, Academic Advisory Network http://jubileedebt.org.uk/about/academic-advisory-network
***My recently published book***
(2016) “De la Crisis de 2001 al Kirchnerismo: Cambios y Continuidades, complilado con C Levey y C Wylde, Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros. http://prometeoeditorial.com/libro/881/De-la-crisis-de-2001-al-kirchnerismo
(2014) "Argentina Since the 2001 Crisis: Recovering the Past, Reclaiming the Future", co-edited with C Levey and C Wylde, New York: Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137434258
My latest published journal article:
(2016) 'Serial payers, serial losers? The political economy of Argentina’s public debt.' Co-author: Francisco J Cantamutto. Economy and Society 45 (1) pp. 123-147 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03085147.2016.1161118
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