What: Book Launch Event for Clearcut: Political Economies of Deforestation
Who: Markus Kröger (Author) and Larry Lohmann (Discussant)
Where: Online on Zoom
When: December 11 from 15-16:30 Finnish time (UTC +2)
Registration:
Join us for a rousing discussion with Larry Lohmann from The Corner House (UK) to discuss the new theories developed and applied in this book. There is no cost for participation, but advanced registration is required.
Regionally dominant extractive sectors—Brazilian cattle ranching, Amazonian narco-gold mining, and Finnish paper pulping—provide the foundation for this book's analysis of the range of motivations for deforestation. This framing allows for a discussion of the global political economy and ecology in general, and an in-depth examination of the varieties of extractivisms that define land and resource use. The chapters take an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on political ethnography and world systems analyses across the Global North-South divide. The book develops and applies a new theory that identifies regionally dominant political-economic systems as the driving forces behind deforestation. This book is essential reading for advanced students, researchers, and policy makers working in (de)forestation, environmental studies, environmental law, economics, conservation, climate change, and sustainability, leading to a deeper understanding of why our planet's forests are under threat.
Markus Kröger is a professor of Global Development Students at the University of Helsinki. His work has focused on the interface of critical agrarian and environmental studies, especially on the global politics of extraction amid climatic-ecological crises. Besides the globalization and conflicts of forestry extractivism, he has studied mining, agriculture and agroforestry dynamics in South America, India, and the Arctic. He has published four books, including a methodological guidebook on how to study complex causal interactions in investment politics. His recent work on existences and extractivisms has pushed the boundaries of conventional research on resource frontiers.
Larry Lohmann is with The Corner House (UK), chairs the advisory board of the World Rainforest Movement, and has worked with social movements in Thailand, Ecuador and other countries. His books confront issues of plantations, forests, carbon markets, energy, artificial intelligence and neoliberalism and his articles have appeared in academic journals in political economy, environment, geography, accounting, Asian studies, law, science studies, socialism, anthropology, development and literary criticism.