PSU Social Sustainability Colloquium

Monday, November 24, noon-2pm, Smith 294, 1825 SW Broadway Ave. Please join us to hear Chilean anthropologists and social sustainability experts Drs. Juan Carlos Skewes and Debbie Guerra speak on social sustainability in Chile.

Debbie Guerra: "Chilean women and Social Sustainability" Juan Carlos Skewes: "State, Market and Social Sustainability in Coastal Chile"

Dr. Skewes is the Dean of Humanities and Dr. Guerra is an associate professor at the Universidad Austral in Valdivia, Chile.

Debbie Guerra: "Chilean women and Social Sustainability" Learn more about the women’s movements in Chile, particularly the role of women in the defense of the environment. Such a role goes beyond active participation, including the framing of the discourse produced by local organizations in their resistance to foreign economic initiatives. The case of Mehuin's resistance to a pulp industry in southern Chile will be discussed.

Juan Carlos Skewes: "State, Market and Social Sustainability in Coastal Chile" Major changes driven by the state and the market have occurred in Chile in the last decades. Some of these changes result from regulations intended to preserve natural resources, while others are associated with indigenous laws. Both pieces of legislative action have sustainability and equity as their goals. This talk will explore what happened at the ground level.

Please join us for this event! This is free and open to the public.

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