Professor Beatriz Bustos Gallardo of the Universidad de Chile will analyze citizenship practices in rural Chilean territories to propose a topography of rural citizenship practices.
Join the School of Management in a neighborhood cleanup, part of the 27th annual United Way Day of Caring.
Professor Paul Posner will moderate a Q&A session with Beatriz Bustos Gallardo, professor at the Universidad de Chile, about the 2019 social revolt in Chile that led to the writing and referendum of a new constitution. The constitutional assembly included leaders from ecological movements, and an ecological lens was central to the whole document.
In this documentary, a research team travels to the “Last Ice Area” to measure the world’s largest and oldest sea ice floes. They know the data, the models, and the science, but none of that has prepared them for the truth on the ground. A discussion with the filmmakers will follow.
The Blackstone Commons Expedition will conclude with a final celebration at Narragansett Brewing in Providence, including a screening of the short film “Kittacuck Speaks” and a program of speakers.
The Blackstone Commons Expedition — a 60-mile, four-day paddle along the Blackstone River, from Worcester to Providence, organized by the Blackstone Watershed Collaborative at Clark University — will kick off with a press event at the Blackstone Heritage Corridor Visitor Center.
South American scholars and activists have proposed buen vivir and post-extractivism as utopian paradigms of alternative nature/society relationships rooted in indigenous knowledges. This talk reassesses and modifies these abstract concepts, proposing the idea of Buen sobrevivir, or “good survival”, as a radical, prefigurative politics grown out of communitarian feminist, post-extractivist praxis by Lenca women and their […]
Once the realm of science fiction fantasy, the prospect of huge machines being lowered onto fragile deep seabed ecosystems to mine for metals is now only two years away from becoming reality. Coumans’s presentation sets out the historical roots of this expansion of extractivism at a time of acute concern about ocean health, biodiversity loss […]
Speaker: Felipe Milanez, Professor at the Institute for Humanities, Arts and Sciences Professor Milton Santos and the Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Program in Culture and Society, of the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil This presentation investigates the relationships between the physical destruction of humans and of nature in the Brazilian Amazon. It pays particular attention to the […]
"Extractives and GIS: Solar Panel Fields and Forest Loss in Massachusetts/ Uganda-Tanga Crude Oil Pipeline Potential Impact" Click here to access the Zoom link John Rogan - Professor at the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University
Laudato Si' Research Institute A multidisciplinary conference exploring the disproportionate impact of ecological degradation on women, with a special focus on environmental and gender injustice such as that arising from mining and other forms of extractivism. Wednesday 2 June: 12:00 - 16:00 (BST) Thursday 3 June: 13:00 - 17:00 (BST) Friday 4 June: 13:00 - […]
Extractives@Clark presents Andrew Curley (Diné) In 2021 the Navajo Generating Station, a long standing symbol of coal energy in the southwest, was demolished. The power plant ended operations the previous year, which signaled the end of coal mining in Black Mesa. In this presentation, Curley will discuss the deeper meaning and contestations of coal within […]
