7-9 June 2022
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
The crisis of inequality: Politics, power and interests in the “development” of forest-agriculture frontiers
Workshop chairs: Grace Wong, Maria Brockhaus, Thilde Bech Bruun, Andrea Downing
This workshop will examine the crisis of widening inequalities in forest-agriculture frontiers, as the rush to capitalize on forest and land resources has transformed diverse landscapes, impacted on local wellbeing and generated conflict.
Our workshop will examine historical origins of development and conservation in frontiers, structural causalities and contemporary (re)production of social and ecological inequalities. We invite papers around these topics with a focus on interdisciplinary social-environmental collaborations/methods, de-colonial approaches and novel conceptual and analytical framings of frontiers and social-environmental justice.