About the webinar
The Covid-19 pandemic has made governments, health organizations and citizens in general painfully aware of the entanglement of changing patterns of food production and consumption and lethal pathogens.
Problematizing evolving ideas regarding the relationship between food and pandemics, both communicable and non-communicable, can open new ways to understand global capitalism and its effects.
Accordingly, pandemics are a highly relevant starting point to study the global political and economic systems related to the food industry. As food production, and particularly meat production, turns ever-more global, new relationships between humans, animals and, increasingly, pathogens evolve. The social, economic and environmental impact is high, and future sustainability depends on how these relationships are managed.
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Programme
Moderator:
Ola Westengen, Associate Professor, NMBU
Perspectives from:
"Is the poultry industry a model for the livestock revolution?"
Frédéric Keck, Fellow, CNRS, France
"Money in pigs: from small scale farming to global bio-industry"
Karen Lykke Syse, Associate Professor, Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo.
"A pandemic politics of sight"
Timothy Pachirat, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts
"The violent narrowing of animal life and the amplification of zoonotic disease risks"
Tony Weis, Professor, Western University, Canada
''Food systems and one health in this new era of pandemics''
Carlos Gonçalo das Neves, Norwegian Veterinary Institute
''TBA''
Melanie Sommerville, Postdoctoral Fellow, NMBU
Organizers
We arrange this event as part of the PhD course The political ecology of pandemics. It is co-organized by
- The SUM research group Rural Transformations
- The SUM Research School
- Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH)
- Norwegian Political Ecology Network (POLLEN-Norway)
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