This event will explore the implications of land governance outcomes for questions of justice, inequality, exclusion and ecological sustainability for EU and member state policies at home and abroad.
It will showcase some of the latest research concerning land governance outcomes internationally and within the EU and its member states. Broadly these outcomes are both socially regressive and ecologically unsound, almost regardless of context. This will be used as an entry point to discuss wider questions of justice, inequality, socio-political exclusion and ecological sustainability, and the extent to which these issues are addressed by European Union and member state foreign, international development and domestic policies.
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DAY ONE
9:00am Registration, All Hallows Campus, Dublin City University
9:50am Words of Welcome
Dr Jivanta Schöttli, Director, Ireland India Institute
10:00am Panel 1: “The Politics of Land Formalisation: interrogating means and ends.”
Dr Serene Ho, RMIT University Melbourne, Australia
“We Need To Talk About the Cadastre.”
Dr Oliver Scanlan, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
“Is “pro-poor land administration” a contradiction in terms? How a land survey in Bangladesh reproduced and reconfigured gendered and racialised exclusion.”
Dr Francesca Di Matteo, French Institute for Research in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.
“Decolonizing Property in Kenya? Politicization of Ancestral Land Claims within Land Policy Reforms (1990s- 2016).”
11:30 Tea Break
11:45 Panel 2: Community lands and the commons: problems of extractive economies, environmental degradation and socio-political exclusion
Dr Phillan Zamchiya, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, Cape Town, South Africa
“The Gendered Outcomes of Formalisation of Property Rights in Land in Sofala province, Mozambique.”
Dr Bitopi Dutta, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies Dehradun, India
“Gendering Land Relations: a study from the Jaintia Hills, Northeast India.”
Itayosara Rojas Herrera, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
“How the contemporary global commodity/land rushes (re)shape the politics of climate change, labour, and, state-citizenship relations in the Colombian Amazon.”
Dr Momar Diongue, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal
“The practical norms of land governance in Senegalese communes. Institutional incompleteness, semi-formality and bricolage.”
13:15 Lunch
14:30 Keynote Address, followed by Q and A
Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK
“Can group farming empower rural women? India's experience."
17:00 Close
DAY TWO
9:30 Registration
10:30 Panel 3: The pitfalls of top-down approaches: a common problem bridging South and North
Dr Narayana A., Azim Premji University, Bangalore and Pranab Choudhury, NRMC Center for Land Governance, India
“Land Records Digitization and its Discontents in India.”
Dr Harikrishnan Sasikumar, Dublin City University, Ireland
“From segregations to shared futures: spatial lessons from Kerala and Northern Ireland.”
Sylvia Kay, The Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“The Extent of Farmland Grabbing in the EU.”
Felicitas Sommer, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
“Does land registration sufficiently and appropriately represent and monitor land rights distribution?”
11:45 Tea Break
12:00 Roundtable Discussion “What can land administration tell us about questions of justice and inequality in EU and member state policy at home and abroad?”
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Close