Land use, poverty and the environment : Research workshop with Bina Agarwal

This event is co-hosted by the LIEPP research groups "Discriminations and category-based policies" and "Environmental policies". 

March 20th 10.15 am - 12.15 pm
Sciences Po - Salle du Conseil
13 rue de l'Université, 75007 Paris

Bina Agarwal is a Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the Global Development Institute of the University of Manchester. She is the author of pioneering work on gender inequalities, environmental governance, feminist environmentalism and environmental inequalities. Among her notable books are the award-winning, A Field of One’s Own (CUP, 1994); Gender and Green Governance (OUP, 2010); and Gender Challenges (OUP, 2016), a three volume compendium of her selected papers. 

Professor Agarwal will discuss these topics with Charlotte Halpern, senior researcher at Sciences Po CEE & LIEPP and director of the Institute for environmental transformation, before engaging with Sciences Po and Université Paris Cité research students and the AIRE faculty, and discussing presentations by tree Sciences Po PhD researchers: 

• Manon Deguet (PhD programme in political science at CERI)
  Manon Deguet is a PhD student in political science, specializing in comparative politics. Under the joint supervision of Sandrine Revet (CERI) and Franck Poupeau (CNRS, CREDA), she is studying the political construction of the rights of nature in Peru and Bolivia. She holds a master's degree in development and international cooperation from Sciences Po Toulouse. After two years' experience in a sustainable development research and consultancy firm, she worked for a year and a half at the French Institute of Andean Studies in Lima, where she conducted exploratory research on her thesis topic.
   
• Kunal Panda (Ph programme in economics at the Department of economics)
  Kunal Panda conducts studies in postcolonial health, primarily focused in India. His research combines the colonial legacies of medicine with land tenure and agrarian change to explain contemporary infant health
   
• Elisa Soyer-Chaudun (PhD programme in sociology at CSO)
  Elisa Soyer-Chaudun studies soil governance in France. In 2021, French Parliament adopted the "Climate and Resilience" law which introduced the objective of no net land take by 20250 and soil restoration. She is studying how local and central public administrations are implementing this objective, focusing on public administration's organisation and production of knowledge about land use/soil health. Elisa Soyer-Chaudun is a graduate from Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs. She is working under the supervision of Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier, Head of CSO.

Bina Agarwal will give another seminar during her stay at Sciences Po, "A Feminist Lens on Forests and Fields: A Conversation with Bina Agarwal", hosted by PSIA and the Sciences Po’s Gender Studies Programme March 18. Details here.