Book Discussion: Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography

Join ICTA-UAB researchers Feroz Khan, Brototi Roy, and Giorgos Kallis in discussion with David Gilbert about his new book from University of California Press on land, social movements, and post-development theory.

Book Discussion: Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land:  A Social Movement Ethnography

Date: Tuesday, October 15th 2024
Time: From 11.30am to 1pm
Location: Z/033 ICTA-UAB and online http://tinyurl.com/REALethnography

With Feroz Khan, Brototi Roy, and Giorgos Kallis discussing with David Gilbert about his new book from University of California Press on land, social movements, and post-development theory.

About the book:

Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes. In the years since, members of this remarkable movement have reclaimed collective control of their land and cultivated diverse agricultural forests on it, repairing the damage done over nearly a century of abuse. Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land is their story. David Gilbert offers an account of the ways these workers-turned-activists mobilized to move beyond industrial agriculture's exploitation of workers and the environment, illustrating how emancipatory and ecologically attuned ways of living with land are possible. At a time when capitalism has remade landscapes and reordered society, Casiavera’s workers movement stands as an inspiring example of how struggles for social and environmental justice can reclaim places of capitalist exploitation with emancipatory effects.

https://www.ucpress.edu/books/countering-dispossession-reclaiming-land/paper

About the speakers:

• Feroz Khan is a doctoral researcher based at ICTA-UAB. Trained in disaster anthropology and environmental studies, he studies the intersection between degrowth, disasters and development. He hails from Singapore and Pakistan, and continues to support organised currents of decolonisation across Southeast Asia.
   
• Brototi Roy is a postdoctoral researcher based at ICTA-UAB. She is a political ecologist and ecological economist focusing on decolonial degrowth using theories from post-development and delinking.
   
• Giorgos Kallis is a political ecologist who is one of the main pioneers of research on degrowth. He is a ICREA research professor at ICTA-UAB.  He has published widely on degrowth and political ecology. His recent research has turned to exploring the political conditions under which radical socio-ecological transformation can be achieved, including the social movements that may bring this about.
   
• David Gilbert is a scholar of social movements, ecological change, and post-development theory. He is a postdoctoral research fellow at ICTA-UAB. He held previous positions as a Ciriacy Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University. He is active in protest movements across four continents.