{"id":1234,"date":"2018-02-09T15:08:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T15:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2018-02-09T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T15:08:08","slug":"owu-talk-feb-20-kemi-fuentes-george-owu-01-post-slavery-narratives-and-conservation-in-rural-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/?p=1234","title":{"rendered":"OWU Talk Feb. 20: Kemi Fuentes-George (OWU \u201901): Post-Slavery Narratives and Conservation in Rural Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Post-Slavery Narratives and Conservation in Rural Jamaica:<\/strong>
\nHow Local Culture Affects Global Environmental Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, Feb. 20th 7:00 p.m. HWCC Benes B<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kemi Fuentes-George<\/strong> (OWU \u201901)<\/p>\n

Kemi Fuentes-George (OWU \u201901) is an Assistant Professor at Middlebury College. His recent book, Between Preservation and Exploitation: Transnational Networks and Conservation in Developing Countries,<\/em> published by MIT Press, explores how local justice claims affect states’ abilities to\u00a0implement their obligations under international environmental agreements. He has also published research in Global Environmental Politics Journal<\/em>, book chapters in Routledge, and written about environmental justice on Salon.com. He is active in his community as a member of the Town of Middlebury Conservation Commission, and as a volunteer for the Vermont chapter of Migrant Justice.<\/p>\n

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Kemi Fuentes-George’s (OWU \u201901) recent book, Between Preservation and Exploitation: Transnational Networks and Conservation in Developing Countries explores how local justice claims affect states’ abilities to\u00a0implement their obligations under international environmental agreements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":1235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-special-events"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}