Polson Institute for Global Development

Conference

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Renewing Development: Connection and Action
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While development seems continually to be in a state of crisis, now that state is heightened. Reshuffling of global powers, climate and biodiversity crises, and technological and military crisis are upending development institutions. Moments of...
  • Polson Institute for Global Development
  • Global Development
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Seminar

About the speaker Holly Jean Buck is an Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo, and a Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC’s seventh assessment report (Working Group III).  She is an environmental...
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Seminar

About the speaker Adaner Usmani is an associate professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University. His research is driven by some simple questions about the distribution of flourishing and suffering in modern societies. He is also...

Seminar

About the speaker Natalia Correa Sánchez is a graduate student in development studies. About the series The Critical Development Studies Seminar Series is a graduate student-led effort that aims to provide space for junior scholars to share...

Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene: Conceptualizing the Climate Crisis

A critical conversation with Wendy Wolford and Jason W. Moore on our contemporary planetary predicament and how different ways of conceptualizing it might entail different strategies for transformative change.

Designing for the Pluriverse: Restor(y)ing Life, Remaking Worlds

Arturo Escobar examines emerging narratives of life that differ significantly from dominant anthropocentric perspectives of the world and their associated extractive modes of global development.