In the space of only 5 weeks time, the EnvJustice / EjAtlas team has been presenting findings and debating in panels dozens of times, on 3 continents. Here we try to pull their efforts together in a short overview, providing links to the conferences, presentations and tweets.
19-27 August 2018: Summer course, Critical Social Studies: Current Issues in Sustainability Science (Juan Liu, Arnim Scheidel and Grettel Navas) – Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China.
21-25 August 2018: The 6th International Degrowth Conference for ecological sustainability and social equity– Malmö, Sweden
21 Aug. | ·Camila Rolando: Building the Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance (FaDa). Call for activists and scholars. |
22 Aug. | ·Giorgos Kallis: Book presentation: ‘Degrowth’. (Friendly) critics of Alf Hornborg & Lynne Segal. ·Camila Rolando & Federico Demaria: Feminisms and Degrowth 2 |
23 Aug. | ·Giorgos Kallis (chair): Plenary session: ‘Dialogues between critical social theories, science and Degrowth’ |
24 Aug. | ·Giorgos Kallis: Panel, Transformation 2: Reducing energy use, a reliable strategy for staying within the carbon budget |
6 September 2018 Arnim Scheidel: Seminar, Missing the forest for the trees? The role of forest carbon assessments in climate change policy- Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China.
September 2018 Grettel Navas: Introduction of PhD research and the banana sector in Central America-The Biotechnology Research Institute of Guangxi Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Guangxi, China
3-7 September 2018: First North-South Conference on Degrowth– Mexico City.
04 Sept. | ·Federico Demaria: Plenary, Pluriverse: how do we articulate different alternatives to development? |
05 Sept. | ·Sofia Ávila Calero (coordinator): Special session, Vivir Bien: Antítesis del Desarrollo. ·Sofia Ávila Calero (coordinator): Alternativas al Desarrollo: diálogos desde el descrecimiento, hacia el Pluriverso’ & Federico Demaria: Book presentations: ‘Decrecimiento: vocabulario para una nueva era’ and ‘Pluriverso: un diccionario del postdesarrollo. Tweet |
06 Sept. | ·Joan Martínez Alier: Plenary, La economia industrial no es circular sino entrópica. |
| ·Federico Demaria (coordinator): Special session, Degrowth and Environmental Justice & Irmak Ertör: Blue Degrowth and Environmental Justice on the Oceans. ·Federico Demaria: Time for a Global Alternatives Confluence- The need for GAC in the current conditions of the world. ·Sofia Ávila Calero: With or without limits? Unpacking the Energy Transition Strategy in Mexico. ·Brototi Roy: Special session, Degrowth in India: Neccesities, Actions, Initiatives. Tweet ·Brototi Roy: Challenges for a Degrowth narrative in India. |
10-12 September 2018: 15th Congress International for Ecological Economics – Puebla, Mexico. Tweet Tweet
10 Sept. | ·Sofía Ávila & Joan Martínez-Alier (moderators); Daniela Del Bene, Federico Demaria, Brototi Roy, Irmak Ertor (participants); Daniela Del Bene & Joan Martínez-Alier (co-authors): Thematic session, Geographies of Environmental Folio (In)Justice. ·Federico Demaria & Joan Martínez-Alier (moderators): Thematic session, Degrowth and Environmental Folio Justice. |
11 Sept. | ·Sofía Ávila Calero (moderator); Federico Demaria & Joan Martínez Alier: Book presentations ‘Descrecimiento. Vocabulario para una nueva era’ & ‘Pluriverso: un diccionario del post-desarrollo’ ·Joan Martínez-Alier: Mexico city’s urban sprawl: related environmental conflicts affecting peasants and their ejidos. ·Sara Mingorria: Emancipatory vocabularies and slogans: the expressions of the environmental justice movements from below. |
12 Sept. | ·Federico Demaria& Joan Martínez-Alier (moderators); Irmak Ertor (participant): Thematic Sessions, Degrowth and Environmental Folio Justice. |
18-19 September: Post-Growth 2018 Conference – Brussels, Belgium
Federico Demaria was a co-organizer. Giorgos Kallis was keynote speaker in the closing session. Find his full presentation here. Tweet + Petition
18 September 2018 Joan Martínez Alier: La enseñanza de las ciencias socio-ambientales– Universidad de Zacatecas, Mexico Tweet
19 September 2018: S. Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
- Daniela Del Bene, Irmak Ertör, Brototi Roy: Conservatorio, La Trampa de las Minirepresas- Otros Mundos Tweet
- Sara Mingorría: Análisis de conflictos socio-ambientales Tweet
- Sara Mingorría: Seminar, Existe un movimiento de justicia Ambiental? Mapa de (in) justicias ambientales Ejatlas- CIMSUR-UNAM & Universidad de Chapingo
- Sara Mingorría: Seminar, PhD thesis, Los nadies tejiendo resistencias: los conflictos de palma de aceite y caña de azúcar en el territorio, las comunidades y los hogares Q’eqchi’ Del Valle del Polochic, Guatemala- CIMSUR-UNAM and Universidad de Chapingo
20 September 2018 Joan Martínez Alier: Conflictos ambientals y movimientos por la justicia ambiental – ITESO, Guadalajara, Mexico Tweet
21 September 2018 Joan Martínez Alier: La enseñanza de las ciencias socio-ambientales- Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
22 September 2018 Sara Míngorria: Presentation of the journal of Ecología Política on Ecofeminism and Feminist Political Ecologies-Colectivo Miradas Críticas del Territorio desde el Feminismo and Organización Agua y Vida, La Reci, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
23 September 2018 Sara Mingorría: El análisis de los conflictos socioambientales desde las perspectivas ecofeministas y de ecologías políticas feministas – Universidad de Moxviquil, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
The project ENVJUSTICE has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 695446)