Public Lecture: Resource extraction, land & the struggle for the forest - voices from Kerala and Brazil's Amazon

Event Date: 31 March 2025

Hosted by the Master's course, Labour and Diversity in a Global Context

Time: 2-4pm

Location: Strathclyde Business School, Cathedral Wing, CW507b

Featured speakers:

CK Janu, leader of the Dalit-Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha social movement for redistribution of land to the landless, Kerala, India; author of Mother-forest: The Unfinished Story of CK Janu

Rosinaldo Waro Munduruku, young warrior of the Munduruku people; participant in the successful self-demarcation porocesses for territory and autonomy in the Brazilian Amazon; member of the Iperig Ayu social movement.

Deise Lima De Oliveira, Master's student at Amazon Institiute of Family Agriculture at Federal University of Para; Agent for the Pastoral Land Commission, accompanying families dispossessed by landowners; and assistant to Wakoburun Munduruku Womens' Association.

Published: 1 April 2025