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SUMMARY:CMES Seminar: Harvesting wind\, stirring sands: the expansion of re
 newable energy frontiers\, local resistance\, and the European academic ga
 ze on green extractivism in West Asia and North Africa.
DESCRIPTION:Contact: info@cme.lu.se\n\nPresentation by Yahia Mahmoud\, Huma
 n Geography\, Lund University.Yahia Mahmoud is an associate professor at t
 he department of human geography (Lund University). Situated in the fields
  of development studies and development geography\, his research has focus
 ed on rural areas in Africa and treated several interrelated themes that a
 re relevant for these sub-disciplines. These topics span from assessing th
 e role of China’s foreign assistance in rural West Africa to the potenti
 als of technical innovation to curb the impacts of climate change and pove
 rty in rural East Africa. When studying these phenomena\, he puts special 
 emphasis on knowledge construction\, history\, and power relations. The ov
 erall goal is to gain better understanding of the process of socio-economi
 c transformation\, in general\, and that of poverty alleviation in particu
 lar. In the pursuit of this\, he has collaborated with researchers from di
 sciplines ranging from social to natural sciences\, both in Sweden and abr
 oad.\n\nMore information about the event: https://www.cmes.lu.se/calendar/
 cmes-seminar-harvesting-wind-stirring-sands-expansion-renewable-energy-fro
 ntiers-local-resistance
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LOCATION:CMES seminar room\, Finngatan 16.
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