Political Ecology Forum @NMBU

Jan 29 2024 11 ep. 38 mins 14
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Interviews with researchers and PhD students to discuss their latest publications and engage with contemporary debates related to power and environment. Produced and hosted by Carmen Mapis and Noé Mendoza

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Riverine Rights: The case of India

Jan 29 2024 11 mins  
In this episode, senior researcher Bibhu Prasad Nayak explains some of the implications of granting rights to rivers in the case of India. Nature and society interactions became a field to explore power relations, governmental institutions, and legal initiatives involved in the process.

Food security, food sovereignty, and collective action during the war in Ukraine with Natalia Mamonova

Aug 08 2023 32 mins  
Natalia Mamonova is a rural (political) sociologist with over 10 years of research experience in rural politics, agrarian transformation, social movements, food sovereignty, and right-wing populism in post-socialist Europe. Natalia is Senior Researcher at RURALIS, the Institute for Rural and Regional Research in Trondheim, Norway. Her current research is mainly focused on the impac

Exploring Pluriversal Politics With Arturo Escobar

Jun 07 2023 43 mins  
In this episode, join us on a thought-provoking intellectual journey as we dive into the complex webs of social and environmental issues, exploring the pluriversal designs with Professor Arturo Escobar. In this captivating podcast series, Professor Escobar, a renowned scholar, and expert in post-development theory invites listeners to challenge conventional wisdom and explore alte

The history of the North American 'Drug War'. An interview with Professor Oswaldo Zavala (part 2)

Jun 01 2023 38 mins  
Oswaldo Zavala, author of Drug cartels do not exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture. He is a Mexican who grew up in Ciudad Juárez – a city in the north of Mexico that stands next to El Paso, Texas. Oswaldo began his career as a journalist in his hometown Juárez, but his professional trajectory evolved towards researching post-national imaginaries, representations o

Mexican drug cartels don't exist. An interview with Professor Oswaldo Zavala (part 1)

Jun 01 2023 39 mins  
Oswaldo Zavala, author of Drug cartels do not exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture. He is a Mexican who grew up in Ciudad Juárez – a city in the north of Mexico that stands next to El Paso, Texas. Oswaldo began his career as a journalist in his hometown Juárez, but his professional trajectory evolved towards researching post-national imaginaries, representations o

Intersectionality in Feminist Political Ecology with Professor Andrea Nightingale

Mar 15 2023 39 mins  
In this episode, Professor Nightingale discusses feminist perspectives and Political Ecology from an anti-essentialist viewpoint. My name is Carmen Mapis, and I am a Ph.D. candidate for the Department of Urban Planning and Development at NMBU. I produce and interview different academics within the wide field of Political Ecology. In this episode of the Political Ecology Podcastfor

Episode 5: Degrowth and the Future of Sustainable Planning

Jan 26 2023 31 mins  
Sustainability is one of the most used terms in projects and planning. In this episode professor Jin Xue reflects on the impacts and connections between dwelling development and planning on the environment and the climate. From a critical perspective, Xue explains her view on Political Ecology, Degrowth, and planning. Building a bridge between academic movements that combined have

Dewilding ‘Wolf-land’: Exploring the Historical Dimensions of Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in Ireland by Dara Sands

Nov 03 2022 31 mins  
In this episode Dara Sands, PhD candidate at NMBU-Noragric, is interviewed by Noé Mendoza to reflect on Dara's recent paper 'Dewilding ‘Wolf-land’: Exploring the Historical Dimensions of Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in Ireland by Dara Sands' where he examines 'historical drivers of change which disrupted a long history of human-wolf coexistence in Ireland'. It is pu

Political Ecology: A breath of fresh air in academia by Alexander Dunlap

Oct 21 2022 33 mins  
In this interview, Carmen Beatriz M. Mapis interviews Alexander Dunlap who reflects on the links between Political Ecology, green solutions, decoloniality and anarchism. Foto: Scott (https://www.flickr.com/photos/snordq/8224007187/in/photolist-4B6Y9m-4B6Y9s-4B6Y9u-4B2QC8-4B2QCa-4B2LtB-4B2LtD-4B2QCe-4B2QCc-4B2QC6-gFuLK7-ceLYvE-6EHryc-91HbMW-2izuj3H-dja8bv-6EHrep-fTeYGN-dhRHWm-4B6Y9o

Pluralistic Seed System Development: A Path to Seed Security? by Teshome Hunduma Mulesa

Oct 06 2021 63 mins  
In this episode, we meet Teshome Hunduma Mulesa, a Ph.D. candidate at Noragric who has been researching farmers’ SEED SECURITY, which is central to crop production for smallholder farmers in developing countries. In the article, Pluralistic Seed System Development: A Patch to Seed Security?, Teshome and colleagues analyze the performance of different seed systems in relation to s