Here is the program for DOPE+ 2024.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12OA-UoxWrZSxeIrLk2N7gw5O935fZf70ftEWEUp_ivY/edit
DOPE 2020
Keynote Speaker - Dr. Chérie N. Rivers (Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environment, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
The DOPE organizers have been holding Community of Practice meetings about the Palestinian liberation cause. Here are some of the resources on the political ecologies of Palestinian liberation that they have come up with.
Political Ecologies of Palestinian Liberation
General Resources
Food Connection Field Trip Experience - follow this link to register
Join us on an unforgettable journey into the heart of U.K.’s vibrant local food scene with the Food Connection Field Trip!
As a dynamic program at the University of Kentucky, the Food Connection is dedicated to serving farmers, food producers, students, and consumers. We are on a mission to cultivate innovative strategies and partnerships that support a thriving, healthy, and equitable local food economy.
- Papers that are submitted should be of original research papers. This can be thesis chapters or term papers. However, no book reviews, literature reviews, etc. are permitted to be submitted.
In the past several decades, the world has seen an expansion of agribusiness in the Global South where growers are smallholder farmers, who have shifted from largely self-sufficient agriculture to market-oriented agro-industry. This huge transformation, proliferated by agribusiness schemes such as contract farming and out-growers, is accompanied by ongoing land acquisition (De Schutter, 2011; Nanthavong et al, 2021; Williams et al, 2021), exclusion and dispossession of the rural poor (Watts, 1994; Wolford et al, 2013; Hall, 2015; Oliveira et al, 2021).
If you want to get in touch, please email us at ukpewg@gmail.com.
Thank you!
“Hay tantísimas fronteras
que dividen a la gente,
pero por cada frontera
existe también un puente.”
“There are so many borders
From challenges to the tragedy of the commons to theories of primitive accumulation, enclosure, and privatization, the commons have long “served as a foil for political ecological analysis” (Turner 2016: 1). Political ecologists have extended institutionalist approaches to study and conceptualize the commons, but have also noted that political ecology and institutionalism’s underlying assumptions and theoretical premises differ in meaningful ways (Turner 2016), raising the need for diverse theorizations of the commons and property more generally.
The environmental justice (EJ) movement in the United States has long sought change by fighting environmental injustices. One major strategy is utilizing litigation strategies centered around federal policy such as the Civil Rights and Clean Water Acts (Pulido et al. 2016). From the top-down, President Clinton issued Executive Orders 12898 (1994) in order to incorporate environmental justice proactively into the work that federal agencies do, but the effectiveness of this policy has been widely critiqued (Pulido et.al. 2016; Moore 2017; Buckhoy 2015).