Event Description
Through an interdisciplinary approach, the proposed event series interrogates how people from different positionalities in Latin America address pressing environmental issues. Over three installments throughout the academic year, we will invite scholars who, in their forms of researching, writing, and engaged scholarship, are studying struggles for territorial and water rights, dignified livelihoods, food sovereignty, and environmental knowledge. Our event series will emphasize how approaching these pressing environmental problems involves an articulation of humans and more-than humans.
Each installment will have two components: a hybrid in person/online talk (March 2) open to the public, and a workshop (March 3) led by the guest speaker and open to graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty who sign up. The lecture-workshop framework will allow participants to collaborate with and learn from our invited speakers how to advance research on nature and politics in Latin America.
Led by Professor Mateo Mier y Terán, this workshop will hone in on concrete experiences of transdisciplinary and Participatory Action Research oriented to advance examples of transformative agroecology.
Speaker
Mateo Mier y Teránis part of the Massificaction Agroecology Research Group in the Department of Agriculture, Society, and the Environment at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) in Chiapas, Mexico. His current research focuses on local and territorial markets for the massification of agroecology, as well as the socio-political and environmental processes embedded in agroecological transformation in Mexico. He is interested in transdisciplinarity and small farmers-based methods of education-action research to drive transformations that strengthen food sovereignty.
Cosponsors
Presented by the Latin American & Caribbean Socionatures Working Group, with cosponsorship support and funding from the CLAS Event Series Grant.