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Working Groups

Working groups are held at 6pm in room 3024 of the GEC.

Sept 11, 2007
"We fought the war to defend our land"
Joe Bryan, UNC at Chapel Hill


Sept 25, 2007
"Community Contradictions: Petroleum Exploration, Development, & Huaorani Sociality"
Flora Lu Holt, UNC at Chapel Hill


October 5, 2007
Note change in time and location: 3:30-5:30 pm, FedEx Global Education Center, 1005
Amazon Borderlands: Mapping Marginality on the Margins
David Salisbury, University of Richmond
* Reception to follow on the fourth floor from 5:30-6:30pm


November 6, 2007

"Seeing No Evil: The H2A Guestworker Program and State-mediated Labor Exploitation" & "Murder in Nuevo Leon"
Sandy Smith-Nonini


November 27, 2007

The Global Idea of "The Commons"
Don Nonini

February 11, 2008
"Governing Relations Between People and
Things: Citizenship, Territory, and the Political Economy of Petroleum in Ecuador"

Gaby Valdivia, UNC at Chapel Hill **
** This working group will start at 6:30 pm

March 17th, 2008
Public Talk with Anthony Bebbington

"Mining and social movements: struggles over environment and development in Andean territories"
3:30-5:00pm
Fed Ex Global Education Center, Room 1005

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*Working Group*
Monday, March 17, 6:30-8:30pm
Dinner will be served
Fed Ex Global Education Center, Room 3024
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1. Main paper for discussion: Bebbington et al World_Dvlpt
2. For a broader framework of project described in the World Development paper: Bebbington_Abramovay_Chiriboga
3 and 4. For an idea of the broader projects in which Bebbington is
engaged: Development and Change paper and 2004 Progress in Human Geography 5. Please also see http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/andes/
which describes the broader project on mining with which the first paper engages

March 24th, 2008
Elizabeth Dunn
Public talk: "Postsocialist Spores: States, Bodies, Food and Disease in the Republic of Georgia"
3:30 pm
Saunders 220

Working group paper: "The Pasteurized State: Food and Material Governance in Colorado, 1945-1950"
6:30 pm
Global Education Center 3024

 

 

 

This Sawyer Seminar, funded by the Mellon Foundation, includes a year-long series of working group meetings
and mini-conferences on the central theme of globalization and the land. It is hosted by UNC's Center for Global Initiatives.