Environmental Conflicts

9:30-9:45- Joan Martínez Alier and Isabelle Anguelovski. Presentation of the workshop and participants. Goals for the workshop.

9:45-10:30- Opening Talk by Robert Bullard  Environmental Justice: Strategies To Achieve Healthy And Sustainable Communities For All (Chair: Joan Martínez Alier).

10:30- 10:45- Break

10:45-12:15- Roundtable #1: Short presentation by each roundtable participant of his/her response to the roundtable questions, and facilitated discussion (Facilitator: TBC).

12:15-12:45- Rikard Warlenius -- A writer and journalist perspective on climate justice, ecological debt, and ecologically unequal exchange.

12:45-14:00-Lunch

14:00-15:00- Keynote Speech by David N. Pellow and Lisa Sun-Hee Park: "Stumbling Towards Justice: Nativism, Environmental Privilege, and the U.S. Environmental Movement" (Chair Joan Martínez Alier).

15:00-16:30- Roundtable #2: Short presentation by each roundtable participant of his/her response to the roundtable questions, and facilitated discussion (Facilitators: Isabelle Anguelovski & Marco Armiero).

16:30-16:45- Break

16:45-17:45- Presentations by EJOs based in Barcelona (GRAIN and GAIA).

-GRAIN on land grabbing and sustainable livelihoods (tbc).

-GAIA, Mariel Vilella: Community-based solutions to climate change and municipal solid waste management: campaigning for zero waste with the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers (tbc).

17:45-18:00- Conclusions of the day.

9:00-10:00- Opening talk by David Szablowski
"Perros del hortelano" or "campesinos ambiciosos"? Struggles over the construction of community in Northern Peru and lessons for EJ studies (Chair: Joan Martinez-Alier).

10:00-11:30- Roundtable #3
Short presentation by each roundtable participant of his/her response to the roundtable questions, and discussion (Facilitator: TBC).

11:30-11:45- Break

11:45-12:45- Marco Armiero and Giacomo D'Alisa: Rights of Resistance: Struggling for Ecological Democracy in the 21st Century.

12:45-14:00- Lunch

14:00-15:00- Keynote Speech by Peter Newell: The global political economy of energy (in)justice (Chair: Giorgos Kallis).

15:00-16:00- Presentation/Discussion by and with ICTA researchers (Chair: TBC).

15:00-15:30- Giacomo D'Alisa/Federico Demaria: Accumulation by Contamination.

15:30-16:00- Iago Otero/Marien González Hidalgo: Looking beyond the smoke: the political ecology of 'wild' fires in Horta de Sant Joan (Terra Alta, Catalonia).

16:00-16:15- Break

16:15-16:45- Stefania Barca: For a political ecology of work: Comparative reflections from Italy, Brazil and the US.

16:45-18:00- Video documentaries and discussion.

18:00- Final words

Conference Program