2 dec

Zoom, Uppsala

Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a counter-hegemonic Anthropocene

seminarier, workshops |

Division of Rural Development invites you to a webinar with Stefania Barca, Senior Researcher at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra.

Senior Researcher Stefania Barca will present her latest book, recently published in the Elements series of Cambridge University Press, link to further information about her book.

The concept of Anthropocene has been incorporated within a hegemonic narrative that represents ’Man’ as the dominant geological force of our epoch, emphasizing the destruction and salvation power of industrial technologies. This Element develops a counter-hegemonic narrative based on the perspective of earthcare labour – or the ’forces of reproduction’. It brings to the fore the historical agency of reproductive and subsistence workers as those subjects that, through both daily practices and organized political action, take care of the biophysical conditions for human reproduction, thus keeping the world alive. Adopting a narrative justice approach, and placing feminist political ecology right at the core of its critique of the Anthropocene storyline, this Element offers a novel and timely  contribution to the environmental humanities. 


STEFANIA BARCA is a senior researcher at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, where she teaches Political Ecology and coordinates the Ecology and Society Lab. Her research interests lay in the environmental history of the industrial era, with particular attention to labour, feminist, degrowth and climate justice movements. She has been selected as the fourth Zennström professor in Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University - starting in January of 2021.

Fakta

Tid: 2020-12-02 13:00 - 14:30
Ort: Uppsala
Lokal: Zoom
Arrangör: Division of Rural Development
Mer information:

ZOOM LINK
Meeting: https://slu-se.zoom.us/j/63384057961
ID: 633 8405 7961
Passcode: 517736

This talk is part of the higher seminar series in Rural Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

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