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Plantation Liberalism: Personhood and Property between Philippine Mindanao and the Black Atlantic
Seminar in Critical Development Studies hosted by Cornell Global Development and the Graduate Field of Development Studies Abstract: On the banana plantations of Mindanao, the Philippines’ southernmost region, activists involved in an anti...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development

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Rocking Qualitative Social Science
Seminar in Critical Development Studies hosted by Cornell Global Development and the Graduate Field of Development Studies Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss my new book, Rocking Qualitative Social Science (Stanford University Press, 2021)...
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
Speaker, Jovan Lewis

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Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa
Seminar in Critical Development Studies hosted by Cornell Global Development and the Graduate Field of Development Studies Abstract: In this talk, I think through the history of Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma, more famously known as Black Wall...
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
  • Applied Economics
Speaker, Bobby Smith

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Rethinking Food, Rewriting Civil Rights: Food, Power, and Black Life in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Seminar in Critical Development Studies hosted by Cornell Global Development and the Graduate Field of Development Studies Abstract: How does our understanding of the American civil rights movement shift if food is the starting point? In this...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
  • Agriculture & Food Systems
Speaker, Kyle Davis

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Measuring the Sustainability of Food Production Systems: Exploring the Solution Space
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2022 Seminar Series Sustainable food systems aim to provide sufficient and nutritious food, while maximizing climate resilience and minimizing environmental impacts. Yet historical practices, notably the...
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
  • Development