Webinar: Discussing Development: Roads and Land

Date and Time: Oct 19, 2022 | 3:00pm – 4:30pm (HST)

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Our webinar #2 as part of the Southeast Asia in Transition – Discussing Development: Road and Land!

In this segment of the Luce Southeast Asia in Transition Webinar Series, we explore the story of development from varied perspectives, putting local interactions with the development paradigm and the more-than-human world into a broad conversation. Our speakers include academic, practitioner, and local voices. Infrastructure projects are often seen as a sign of economic progress. In this webinar we will discuss how development acts upon land, reflecting upon the many consequences, intended or unintended, of actions such as building a road across a landscape that is home to both human and more-than-human residents.

Speakers:

Mike Dwyer (Assistant Professor Geography, Indiana University)

Lisa Arensen (Assistant Professor at the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam)

Chi Suwichan Phatthanaphraiwan (professor of geo-cultural management at Bodhivijjalaya College, Srinakharinwirot University)

Gabriel Yong (lecturer in the Geography, Environment and Development department at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Universiti Brunei Darussalam)

Moderator: Alyssa Paredes, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Michigan State University