This is a keynote from the conference: Development Days 2022: Infrastructures, technologies, and vulnerabilities in global development. This conference was organized by the Finnish Society for Development Research (FSDR) in collaboration with the Finnish University Partnership for International Development (UniPID), The Global Extractivisms and Alternatives Initiative (EXALT), University of Helsinki, and Hanken School of Economics
Keynote Speaker: Tania Murray Li, University of Toronto
Talk Title: ‘Infrastructural Violence in Indonesia’s Oil-Palm Plantation Zone’
Commentator: Anja Nygren, University of Helsinki
Session chair: Tuomas Tammisto, University of Helsinki
Tania Murray Li is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her publications include Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier (Duke University Press, 2014), Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia (with Derek Hall and Philip Hirsch, NUS Press, 2011), The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics (Duke University Press, 2007) and many articles on land, labour, class, capitalism, development, resources and indigeneity with a particular focus on Indonesia. Her latest book Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation of Indonesia’s Oil Palm Zone (Duke University Press, 2021) is co-authored with Pujo Semedi (Universitas Gadjah Mada). [ Ссылка ]
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