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Polson Institute Events

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Seminar

From Plantation to Prison: The Origins of Mass Incarceration
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

Timescapes of property: conservation and belonging in the Colombian Pacific Forest Reserve Zone
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...
Play Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene: Conceptualizing the Climate Crisis

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.

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

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.