Next Meeting
	April 29th	08.30-10.00	Nobelparken 1461-516

 

Participants

• Per Bendix Jeppesen Associate Professor, Department of Endocrinology, Faculty of Health Sciences
• Inge S. Fomsgaard Senior Researcher, Depart. of Integrated Pest Management, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences 
• John Larsen Senior Researcher, Depart. of Integrated Pest Management, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences 
• Kurt Nielsen Director of Department of Freshwater Ecology, National Environmental Research Instititute

 

Research Themes

• Research Theme 1: Natural Resource Management, Land Use Management, and Land Rights in Modern Latin America
• Research Theme 2: Citizenship, States and Social Movements in Latin America

 

Content

The subject of the symposium is based on the first of the centre’s five research themes, but to enhance the transdisciplinary synergy the organizers of the symposium will invite speakers and papers within research theme 2 as well. The main objective of this combination of the themes 1 and 2 is to acquire greater insights into the relationships between Natural Resource Management in Latin America and the social and political context. The symposium will focus on the following questions: to what extent is environmental degradation embedded in global and local transformations, and in local systems of knowledge and knowledge transfer? How can an interdisciplinary approach to NRM generate new insights into the relationships between the quality of the ecosystems and the social and cultural context? How can an interdisciplinary approach to NRM provide comprehensive and sustainable solutions to land degradation and other environmental problems in Latin America? What types of citizenship, rights and entitlements emerge as part of contemporary processes of change? What is the role of civil society, social movements and local NGOs in the processes of democratization in Latin America?

 

Previous meetings

March 14th 2008 - Download the summary  

Participants

• Thomas Olesen Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences 
• Ken Henriksen Assistent Professor, Inst. of Language, Literature and Culture, Faculty of Humanities
• Sten Schaumburg-Müller Associate Professor, Department of Jurisprudence, School of Law
• Anne Line Dalsgaard Associate Professor, Inst. of Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities
• Per Bendix Jeppesen Associate Professor, Department of Endocrinology, Faculty of Health Sciences
• Karen-Margrethe Simonsen Associate Professor, Depart. of Comparative Literature, Inst. of Aesthetic Studies, Faculty of Humanities

 

Research Themes

• Research Theme 2: Citizenship, States and Social Movements in Latin America

• Research Theme 3: Modernization Processes and Conceptualizations of Latin American Identity