Upcoming: Sri Lanka in the age of Anthropocene - ECO-DEM Talks
You are cordially invited to the next online talk organized by our ECO-DEM project.
Abstract:
The theme is the Sri Lankan setting in the Anthropocene.There are mainly three topics. The first of which is the anthropocene historical alignment.This is an introduction to understanding historical development in the Anthropocene, Sri Lanka, and the global south in that framework.Secondly, historical Layers of Human-Environmental Interaction in Sri Lanka, wherein I explore precolonial Sri Lanka, colonial disruptions, and postcolonial Sri Lanka.Thirdly, the current global policy response and policy directionality for Sri Lanka.
About ECO-DEM:
This South-South collaboration interrogates development, democracy and the ecological transition which subverts eurocentric tendencies in hegemonic development discourses.
The participants in this project are:
Pedro Alarcón (Cape Town), Olivia Arigho Stiles (Bogotá), Alex Dyzenhaus (Cape Town), Rocío Fernández Ugalde (Bogotá), Pooja Kalita (Colombo), Elena Pérez-Lagüela (Cape Town), and Sarah Thompson (Colombo) and Kathy Hochstetler (Advisory Board).
