Last month, CSSD Director and former co-director of the Pacific Climate Circuits working group, Paige West delivered the annual Contested Development Lecture at King's College London as a part of their Human Geography Seminars. West’s talk, “Commoning and Decannonizing Political Ecology: An Example from Melanesia and New York City,” addresses the necessary transformations the field of Political Ecology must undergo to meet the demands of a changing world through the lens of a decade long collaborative project located in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
Read more about her recent lecture here.
To learn more about Paige West’s work in Papua New Guinea, read about the June 2019 Voices on the Ground: Human Rights Defenders Workshop here.