Land, Labour and the Politics of Development Study Group webinars
The DSA’s Land, Politics and Sustainability Study group webinar series is convened by Dr. Rama Salla Dieng, Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Their online event series is open to all. You can download a PDF of all webinars for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Find out more about the group, and scroll down for past webinars you can playback.
Forthcoming webinars
South Africa Zimbabwe’s Command Agriculture: Problems of Planning under Neoliberalism
Date TBC, 12.30 pm Dr. Freedom Mazwi, Lecturer, University of Cape Town.
Title: Demanding Land Rights in Assam, India: Private property and its critique from below
13 May, 1pm GMT Dr. Vasundhara Jairath, Assistant Professor in Development Studies at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati, India. Register.
Green Grabbing and Carbon Offsets in India, Tanzania and Mexico
5 June (World Environment Day), 2pm BST Prof Prakash Kashwan, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Brandeis University.
Past webinars you can playback
Redistribution, ownership, investment, and land administrative reform in Africa
11 December 2023, 1 pm Professor Kojo Amanor, Visiting professor, African Studies Center – TUFS / Professor, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. Watch here.
This is God’s land: Land seizures as a mechanism of land access for peri-urban farming among Malawian migrants in Zimbabwe
12 January 2024, 12.30 pm Dr. Johannes Bhanye, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of the Free State, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, South Africa. Watch here.
Contract farming in Southern Africa and the global gig economy: land, labour and the workings of merchant capital.
25 January 2024, 12.30 pm Dr Helena Pérez Niño, Assistant Professor, ISS Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. Watch here.
Social Reproduction and Agrarian Studies: Lessons from Palestine & The Sahel
12 February 2024, 1pm Dr Rama Salla Dieng, DSA Land, Politics and Sustainability Study Group Co-convenor and Lecturer in African Studies and International Development, Centre of African Studies Edinburgh. Register.
Decolonizing the Land: The Agrarian Question in Pakistan
23 February 2024, 12.30 pm Dr. Noaman Ali, Lecturer in International Development, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath.
When the State is your Landlord: The Precarity of Urban Agriculture in Accra
6 March 2024, 3.30-5pm Professor Dzodzi Tsikata, Distinguished Research Professor Development Studies, SOAS, University of London (Co-badged with the Centre of African Studies Edinburgh).
Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Environmental Governance in Amazonian Guiana
13 March 2024, 12 GMT Book launch with Dr Yolanda Ariane Collins.
Unviable Micro-Property? Petty Production in Indian Agriculture
26 March 2024, 1pm GMT. Professor Barbara Harriss-White, University of Oxford.
Emerging issues of climate justice, land rights and trade: The palm oil dispute between Indonesia and the European Union
25 April, 12.30 pm Dr. Lorenzo Cotula, Principal researcher and Head of law, economies and justice programme, Natural Resources research group at the IIED.