CSUS Hamm-Norris Seminar Series- Maria Garcia

September 19, 2023 12:00PM - 1:00PM

Natural Resources Building Room 338 or Zoom

Join the CSUS department for the Hamm-Norris seminar series where folks from the CSUS community share about their latest scholarship and research. The seminar will be held in person in Natural Resources Building, Room 338 and online at:
https://msu.zoom.us/j/97715232159
Meeting ID: 977 1523 2159
Passcode: CSUS

September 19th features Maria Garcia's talk entitled "Rural women's empowerment in Colombia. Bringing together Feminist Political Ecology and Gender and Development."

Seminar Summary: This talk summarizes Maria’s doctoral dissertation preliminary findings. She proposes a theoretical framework to understand rural women’s empowerment from a gender-transformative view, by merging the contributions of the Gender and Development School of thought and the Feminist Political Ecology community of practice. Then, she uses this framework in a qualitative case study with rural women and men participating in a development project in Colombia. 

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