Environ Sci, Policy, and Management C11 - 2015-03-17
Environ Sci, Policy, and Management C11, 001 - Spring 2015 Americans and the Global Forest - Lynn Huntsinger Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Part of the Center for Latin American Studies Series, "Inequality: A Dialogue for the Americas"
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"Inequality: A Dialogue for the Americas" is a path-breaking series that connects political leaders and scholars from Latin America to their counterparts in the United States by means of intercontinental video-conferencing. It creates an ongoing dialogue on the nature of inequality in the United States and Latin America, paving the way for future conversations and collaboration.
Oscar Landerretche is the director of the School of Economics and Business at Universidad de Chile. Previously, he worked as the Chilean consultant for Global Source Partners' Consulting Network in New York (2006-2011) and was the Executive Secretary of the first phase of Michelle Bachelet's presidential campaign. He is an editorial columnist for La Tercera.
Brad DeLong is a professor of economics at UC Berkeley, chair of the Political Economy of Industrial Societies major, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 1993 to 1995.
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The Horace Albright Lecture in Conservation: Fall 2013
Kathleen Merrigan, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture under President Obama, and Michael Pollan, Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism discuss the future of the food system. Linda Schacht, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, moderates.
Sponsored by the College of Natural Resources: http://nature.berkeley.edu and the Berkeley Food Institute: http://food.berkeley.edu
Elvera Kwang Siam Lim Memorial Lecture in Chinese Studies
"Revalorizing Gendered Self-Worth in China's New Age of Private Property."
Professor Li Zhang, UC Davis
November 11, 2008
This lecture explores how the privatization of home ownership and a rising material culture of consumerism reconfigure the intimate realm of self-worth, love, and marriage in urban China. Through several ethnographic cases, my research shows how owning a private house has gradually become the decisive factor in considering marriage and a focal point of contention in dissolving that relationship. In this context, I suggest that self-worth has become more and more individualized and materialized through the idiom of property possession. After thirty years of economic reform, the socially embedded nature of the self that was once at the heart of a moral economy is being eclipsed by an individual-centered, materialistic determinism nurtured by a market economy. This social reconfiguration however is a gendered process. While the meanings of masculinities have shifted toward ones ability to make money, possess desirable material goods, or gain political power, the construction of self-worth among women tends to focus on the body and physical appearance, which serve as the material foundation for constructing femininities.
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