Event
Land at the centre: perspectives on land and development
Monday, March 17, 2025 09:00to17:00
Thomson House
3650 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 1Y2, CA
A day-long conference hosted by the Institute for the Study of International Development, and organized by Professor Yann le Polain de Waroux.Ìý Register online HERE.
Land is where our lives are lived – it is a source of food, it is home, territory, it is what our cities are built on, what supports life-sustaining ecosystems. It is also a contested resource, a source of meaning to some and a commodity to others. It is at the core of the question of development. In this conference, we will explore some of the many intersections of land and development, drawing from multiple disciplinary and geographical perspectives.
The conference will feature a series of short talks by researchers at different stages of their careers (graduate students, postdocs, and faculty), as well as keynote talks by two stellar guest speakers: Wendy Wolford, from Cornell University (), and Ben McKay, from the University of Calgary ().
This conference is made possible in part through the support of the Dean of Arts Development Fund (DADF).
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Speaker |
Presentation title |
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8:30-8:45 |
Welcome & coffee |
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8:45-10:15 |
Presentations |
Louise Fontan-Ducret (91ÉçÇø) |
"The river is empty". Frontier dynamics, citizenship negotiation and market integration around the Pilcomayo river in the Bolivian Chaco |
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Gaëlle Mével (91ÉçÇø) |
Sea level rise and wellbeing implications for coastal communities: a global evidence map |
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Julia Ros Cuellar (Bishop's) |
Trusting the Land: Alternative Land Arrangements for Agroecological Stewardship |
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Samantha Sagredo (91ÉçÇø) |
Land as a Site of Ecological Regeneration and Identity Building in Rural Amazonia |
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Elham Soleimanian (91ÉçÇø) |
Sustainable Management of Irrigation Reservoir Command Areas at the Global Scale in Response to Environmental Changes |
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10:15-10:30 |
Coffee break |
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10:30-12:00 |
Presentations |
Fernando De Almeida (91ÉçÇø) |
History of Science and Biodiversity Conservation in the Brazilian Amazon: The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project |
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Ana Deaconu (91ÉçÇø) |
Healthy farms, healthy farmers: Biodiversity management lessons from Indigenous farmers in Ecuador |
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Jackie Hamilton (91ÉçÇø) |
Who cares for land? A justice perspective on access to acts of care |
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Diana Barrero (UofT) |
Weaving Colombian Women's Stories: (Re)making of Zones of Extraction with a Needle and Thread |
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MartÃn Giraldo-Hoyos (91ÉçÇø) |
Forest Allies: Cacao and the Making of Black Peasant Landscapes in the Cauca River Valley, Colombia |
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12:00-13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00-14:00 |
Keynote |
Ben McKay (UCalgary) |
From Extractivism to Co-production: The Political Economy of Agroecological Transitions |
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14:00-14:15 |
Coffee break |
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14:15-15:45 |
Presentations |
Marie Gagné (ULaval) |
Land Reform by Stealth in Senegal |
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Jean-François Rousseau (UOttawa) |
Pumping land: Infill schemes in periurban Cambodia |
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Albert Berry (UofT) |
The Damage Resulting from High Land Concentration |
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Patrick Slack (91ÉçÇø) |
Sedenterizing Swiddening Subjects: Commodity Production and Territorialization in Northern Vietnam |
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Yann le Polain (91ÉçÇø) |
Dream brokers and the moral economy of frontier investments |
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15:45-16:00 |
Coffee break |
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16:00-17:00 |
Keynote |
Wendy Wolford (Cornell) |
The Plantation Ideal: Extractive Landscapes in Mozambique from the Portuguese to ProSavana |
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17:00-18:00 |
Reception |
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