SESSION 3 | 10 OCTOBER 2022 : ENVIRONMENTAL CARE AND DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVES
Larry Lohmann works with The Corner House, a Dorset-based solidarity and research organization. He is a founding member of the Durban Group for Climate Justice and chairs the advisory board of the World Rainforest Movement, with which he has been associated for 25 years. He spent much of the 1980s with Thailand’s Project for Ecological Recovery and more recently has been working with social movements in Ecuador and other countries. Among his books are Pulping the South: Industrial Tree Plantations in the Global Paper Economy (1996, with Ricardo Carrere), Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Privatization and Power (2006), Mercados de carbono: La neoliberalizacion del clima (2012), Energy, Work and Finance (2014, with Nicholas Hildyard) and Cadenas de bloques, automatizacion y trabajo: Mecanizando la confianza (2020). His articles have appeared in academic journals in political economy, environment, geography, accounting, Asian studies, law, science studies, socialism, anthropology and development and have been translated into many languages. Most are available at www.thecornerhouse.org.uk.
This session features the research of five young Latin American scholars who are part of the first generation of students of the Masters in Political Ecology and Alternatives to Development, created in 2020 at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito, Ecuador. This Masters Program provides a transdisciplinary base for young scholars with an activist background to strengthen specifically southern and Latin American perspectives on political ecology. It additionally draws from different recent strands of Latin American critical knowledge production, e.g. on alternatives to development, critical geography, decoloniality or subaltern feminist approaches. The students come from a variety of Latin American countries and disciplines. In this panel, biologists from Uruguay and Ecuador come together with a Venezuelan expert in industrial relations, an anthropologist from Colombia and an Ecuadorian engineer in ecotourism. Their research focuses on the ongoing disputes between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic territorialities and modes of living, perspectives on the economy, societal nature relations and democratic decision-making, which characterize socio-ecological conflicts in Latin America today.