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Prof. Sergio Puig will be presenting his work as a Udall Center Fellow, followed by a question-and-answer session. The Udall Center Fellows Program offers a semester off from normal teaching to allow for creative scholarship and pursuit of funds to further the Fellow’s research.
Climate change will affect our seasons, infrastructure, and food supply. It will also impact our daily life in unpredictable ways, especially for those who are economically disadvantaged. While globalization will not stop, it must adapt in just directions. Mainly, it must address the inequalities that will be exacerbated by climate change.
This presentation grows out of Puig’s book At the Margins of Globalization (that focuses on Indigenous and local communities) to explore how our current model of globalization as reflected in international economic frameworks should adapt to include ‘climate justice’ perspectives. More concretely, Puig’s current project uses science, legal analysis, and insights from Indigenous sustainable forms of production, distribution, and consumption to both push back against current models of economic interconnectedness promoted by modern, ‘neo-liberal’ frameworks and influence the reform process at the World Trade Organization (WTO). The project serves as an input for the Remaking Trade Project, a high-level forum driving the reforms of the WTO (especially as they concern Trade and Indigenous Peoples). The project is also the main input for a new book addressing how ‘modern’ forms of trade, financing, intellectual property, and investment frameworks must respond to the challenges presented by climate change.
This is a hybrid event (in-person and on Zoom). Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees beginning at 12:00 pm; the Zoom meeting and presentation will begin at 12:30 pm.
Please RSVP to Molli Bryson at mollic@arizona.edu by Apr. 17th whether you plan to attend in person or on Zoom.