Public lecture: The Global Land Grab: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Development Project
Event Details
- Date:
- Monday, 05 November 2012
- Time:
- 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
- Room:
- Terrace Room (Level 6)
- UQ Location:
- Sir Llew Edwards Building (St Lucia)
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Kerryn Biles
- Phone:
- 336 53173
- Email:
- k.biles@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Social Science
Event Description
- Full Description:
- FREE PUBLIC LECTURE
Development professionals, friends and colleagues are invited to join us for a stimulating public lecture by leading expert in global food regime, agrarian and development questions Professor Philip McMichael.
Philip McMichael is a Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University. Born in Adelaide, and educated at Adelaide University, he completed his PhD in Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
His dissertation research on the land question in colonial Australia was conducted while teaching at the University of New England, Armidale, resulting in an award-winning book: Settlers and the Agrarian Question (1984). Returning to the U.S., he has since concentrated his research on food regimes, the politics of globalisation, and agrarian movements, editing The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems (1994), New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development (2005, with F. H. Buttel), Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change (2010), and Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change (2011, with J. Borras & I. Scoones).
He has worked with the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, the UN Research Institute for Social Development, FoodFirst, and the international peasant coalitions Vía Campesina and the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty. He has recently authored the 5th edition of Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective (2012).
For more information please visit: www.uq.edu.au/development-practice
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