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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nThursday, February 06, 2025 3:30 pm to 5:
 30 pm \n JHB100 \n Jackman Humanities Building \n 170 St. George Street, 
 1st floor \n\nSpeakers \nAshley Dawson \n\nDescription: \nAs the climate c
 risis intensifies, big conservation organizations are increasingly toutin
 g 'nature-based solutions' as a key tool to absorb greenhouse gas emission
 s. We are consequently witnessing the creation of a multi-billion-dollar f
 inancial scheme based on carbon offsetting and other fake fixes. Policies 
 like the 30x30 goal adopted at UN Biodiversity COP15 treat Indigenous and 
 local communities’ lands as a carbon stock so polluters can keep polluting
 . My talk will show that, while the conservation industry gets its hands 
 on billions of dollars, and speculators profit widely, the local people 
 who are supposed to be conserving forests are excluded from the decisions 
 and the benefits.About Professor Dawson:Ashley Dawson is an author, activ
 ist, filmmaker, and photographer. Based in NYC, Ashley teaches as a Dis
 tinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center / City University o
 f New York and the College of Staten Island. Recently published books of h
 is include Environmentalism from Below (Haymarket, 2024), People’s Power
 : Reclaiming the Energy Commons (O/R, 2020), Extreme Cities (Verso, 201
 7), and Extinction: A Radical History (O/R, 2016). He is also the co-edi
 tor of a collection of testimonies by activists resisting neocolonial cons
 ervation entitled Decolonize Conservation! (Common Notion Books, 2024).RE
 GISTER TO ATTEND\nContact Information:: Katharine Bell, cdts.admin@utoron
 to.ca \n\nContact Information: \n Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Stud
 ies cdts.admin@utoronto.ca Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies \n
 \nSponsors \nCentre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies \n170 St. George 
 Street, 1st floor \n\nCategories \n Lecture \n\nAudiences \n All
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LOCATION:170 St. George Street, 1st floor
SUMMARY:Against Neocolonial Conservation
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/events/against-neocolonial-
 conservation
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