*Apologies for cross-posting*

Dear colleagues,

Please find details below for an event to be held in the UCL Anthropology
Department next Tuesday 27 March. All are welcome!


*Territory, Ecology & Human Rights: a perspective from the Global South*
Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Tuesday 27th March | 4-6pm | Archaeology Lecture Theatre

The ongoing struggle for land rights among indigenous populations and other
traditional communities in the Global South has become increasingly
entrenched in violence. As large-scale extractive industries make claims on
the ecologically-rich areas in which these communities live, their lives
and livelihoods are at risk. These groups depend on access to their
ancestral territories for their continued way of life, yet the ecological
diversity that these protected areas present make them desirable regions
for industries such as large-scale agriculture & livestock, hydroelectric
energy production, cellulose, fracking, mining, among many others including
the illegal wildlife trade. The increasing commoditisation and global trade
in these goods and services is directly implicated in the continued
ecological destruction and human rights violations of communities across
the Global South.

This session explores these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective.
We are pleased to welcome Dr Marcelo Chalréo - Human Rights Lawyer and
President of the Human Rights Commission of Rio de Janeiro, Dr Jerome Lewis
- UCL Anthropologist working with sustainability, conservation, and
hunter-gatherer groups in the Congo Basin, and Dr Julia Sauma - UCL
Anthropologist working with Quilombola groups in the Brazilian Amazon.

*- Dr Marcelo Chalréo (OAB)*

Dr Marcelo Chalréo is President of the Human Rights Commission of Rio de
Janeiro (CDHAJ OAB-RJ), and has more than 35 years experience as a Human
Rights lawyer. He is a member of the Executive Council of the American
Association of Jurists, and has played an active role in the legal defence
of the human rights of diverse groups, including indigenous communities
throughout South America, Quilombola groups in Brazil, landless
agricultural workers, and other communities who struggle for their right to
land. Marcelo will discuss the importance of territoriality, and the links
between ecological and territorial rights. His talk will address concerns
surrounding capitalist forms of production, and the expropriation of land
and ecological depredation that he has witnessed in his career in human
rights.

*- Dr Jerome Lewis (UCL)*

Dr Jerome Lewis began working with Pygmy hunter-gatherers and former
hunter-gatherers in Rwanda in 1993. This led to work on the impact of the
genocide on Rwanda's Twa Pygmies. Since 1994 he has worked with Mbendjele
Pygmies in Congo-Brazzaville researching child socialisation, play and
religion; egalitarian politics and gender relations; and communication.
Studying the impact of global forces on many Pygmy groups across the Congo
Basin has led to research into human rights abuses, discrimination,
economic and legal marginalisation, and to applied research supporting
conservation efforts by forest people and supporting them to better
represent themselves to outsiders.

*- Dr Julia Sauma (UCL)*

Dr Julia Sauma's research with Quilombolas (Maroons) in the Eastern Amazon
region (Brazil) has elicited the particularly potent conception of
collectivity that motivates her research: Coletivo – a self-designation
coined by these people in their recent territorial dealings with the State
– understood as a specific type of person rather than a group; a person
that is defined as the direct inverse of the Individual person. This notion
turns on its head the Euro-American conception of collectivism as a
political or moral stance that prioritises the group over the individual
person, leading directly towards a comparative contemplation of the
relationship between notions of personhood and collectivity.

*Join us at 4pm on Tuesday 27th of March at the UCL Anthropology
Department *

*All are Welcome!*

Facebook Event Page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/163806544320348/


*Posted on behalf of organiser of the event, Raffaella Fryer-Moreira (PhD
student, UCL Anthropology)*


*Tess AltmanPhD Candidate*
Department of Anthropology
University College London
14 Taviton Street WC1H 0BW
https://ucl.academia.edu/TessAltman

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