The Massey University School of People, Environment and Planning invite you to a webinar “Compound exposure in the Pacific: how our solution to climate change could make things worse” given by Associate Professor Nick Bainton from Austrailain National University. Nick is an anthropologist at the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet). He has spent the last 20 years …
Recrafting the narrative of mining in New Zealand: Is Shane Jones a closet post-structuralist?
This is an opinion piece written by PERC member Professor Glenn Banks. It was originally published on the Massey University website. Okay, hands up if you’re a post-structuralist? Not sure what one of them looks like? Essentially post-structuralists argue that the way we see and know the world is socially created – and it is socially created through words, narratives …
Luxon goes all out for growth in mining and tourism – we should be careful what he wishes for
PERC member Glenn Banks has written a piece for The Conversation with Regina Scheyvens responding to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s state-of-the-nation address – “Luxon goes all out for growth in mining and tourism – we should be careful what he wishes for“. The authors argue: “We shouldn’t rush to judgement, but at least one prominent financial commentator has concluded the maths behind the goals …
What can we really expect from an expanded mining industry?
PERC member Glenn Banks has published a piece in The Spinoff analysing Shane Jones’ “mining boosterism” and the debate around “critical minerals”. He argues: “The minister’s references to the need for New Zealand to “do our bit” in terms of the production of “critical minerals” is used as an additional justification for the expansion of the sector. The problem is …
Alice Beban’s ‘Unwritten Rule’ wins book awards
PERC member Alice Beban’s book Unwritten Rule: State-Making through Land Reform in Cambodia (Cornell University Press) has won two prizes in 2023: The Benda Prize and the NZASIA Book Award. The Benda Prize “is given annually to an outstanding newer scholar from any discipline or country specialization of Southeast Asian studies for a first book in the field”. Alice’s work was recognised …
“Extraction: Tracing the Veins” online conference a success
The Political Ecology Research Centre (PERC) at Massey University, New Zealand, and Wageningen University co-hosted PERC’s third online conference, titled “Extraction: Tracing the Veins”, on June 29 – July 10, 2020. The conference sought to re-examine extraction and its contested place in contemporary capitalism. Presentations from across the globe included more than eighty pre-recorded video presentations as well as live …
Wageningen University Visit
On April 25, 2017, Dr. Trisia Farrelly, Co-director of Massey’s Political Ecology Research Centre (PERC) visited Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Dr Farrelly’s visit, to the Sociology of Development and Change (SDC)/ Centre for Space Place and Society (CSPS) and the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN), included a forum discussion she held to explore how Massey’s PERC membership could work collaboratively with other individuals and …
PERC Student Profile: Thomas Robertson
Thomas is a social anthropologist based in Australia who completed his MA at Massey University in 2016. Thomas’ broad interest is in complex environmental problems which require interdisciplinary perspectives to approach, and he has conducted research on interdisciplinarity itself. Thomas holds a BA/BSc in social anthropology/nanoscience, and an MA in social anthropology from Massey University, New Zealand. Recently having finished …