Climate justice movements and Covid in the Global South

Speakers

• Zainab Aliyu is a 3rd Year Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar in Climate Justice at the University of Reading. She has a multidisciplinary educational background in Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Environment (MSc) from the University of Exeter, UK, and Marine Sciences (BSc) from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Her work experiences have mostly been in environmental management and consultancy, where she worked as an environmental compliance officer and a sustainability consultant before starting her PhD. Her research uses the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) as a case study to explore how grassroots organizations in sub-Saharan Africa under the auspices of a transnational network are mobilizing for climate justice, and the capacities of these organizations to impact on policy and equity-based positions in international climate change dialogue and related processes. 
• Dr Deborah Delgado Pugley is a Professor and Researcher of Sociology at PUCP (Peru). Her research focuses on global environmental politics, sustainable development policies and environmental issues at the community level. Recent projects include the impact assessment of oil spills in Amazonian communities and local universities involvement in climate policies. She is interested in indigenous social movements, human and environmental rights, natural resources management, climate change policies related to forests (REDD) and development. She holds a PhD in Development Studies and Sociology at the Université Catholique de Louvain and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris. She is currently a visiting researcher with the Governance in Conflict Network at the Department of Conflict and Development in Ghent.
• Dr. Prakash Kashwan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Co-Director of the Research Program on Economic and Social Rights, Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs. He is the author of Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico (OUP, 2017). Prakash's research explores the various intersections of inequality, environment, and development, specifically in the context of environmental policy, climate justice, climate governance, and global development. In these endeavours, he builds on his over two-decade-long engagements with questions of global and international environmental governance, including the first career in international development (1999-2005). He also convenes the Climate Justice Network.

Chair: 

• Dr Jessica Omukuti - Department of Politics 

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