The “Land Technologies: Interrogating Tools of Governance in the Colonial Present” workshop, to be held in person from August 8-12 at Cornell University, will provide pre-tenure scholars from any university an opportunity to explore new research ideas on the politics of land. Applications are being accepted until March 25.
This collaborative workshop comes at an opportune time for many scholars who have not been able to perform long-term field work, which is critical to research in social science fields, according to Jenny Goldstein, assistant professor of global development and co-organizer of the workshop.
“Given the pandemic-related research slowdown for many junior faculty as well as the loss of many in-person networking opportunities over the past few years, we are excited to be hosting an in-person workshop this summer in Ithaca,” Goldstein said.
The workshop will bring together 12-15 pre-tenure scholars from fields of geography, anthropology, sociology, history, political science, science and technology studies for five days of collaborative scholarship. The workshop aims to open a space for like-minded scholars to plan new empirical research opportunties.
“We envision this as time and space for all participants to get re-energized and move nascent research ideas forward,” Goldstein said.
Scholars will explore relationships between land governance and phenomena such as democratic backsliding, ecological crises, socio-economic inequality, and racial difference and new technical interventions that re-articulate colonial, post-colonial, or other power-laden relations.
The workshop is co-hosted by Goldstein and Levi Van Sant, assistant professor of integrative studies at George Manson University, and sponsored by the Cornell Center for Social Sciences and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
Kelly Merchan is a communications specialist in the Department of Global Development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
