Published April 16, 2010
by iris_author
Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto invites you to
this special event:
Time:Tuesday, April 20th, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Victoria College, Room 206
91 Charles St. West (Museum Subway Station)
Professor Andrés Dimitriu
Departamento de Comunicación Social, Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias
Sociales, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina.
Plunder, Pollution and New Enclosures
NO MORE "DOWN THERE" APPROACHES: CONSEQUENCES OF THE EXTRACTIVE MODEL IN ARGENTINA, ECOLOGICAL HISTORY AND WHY "LOCAL" CONDITIONS ARE OF GLOBAL CONCERN.
"The physiognomy of a government can best be judged in its colonies,
for there its characteristic traits usually appear larger and more
distinct.When I wish to judge the spirit and vices of the government of
Louis XIV,I must go to Canada. Its deformities are seen there as through a microscope"
--Alexis de Tocqueville
Andrés Dimitriu is full professor in the Department of Communication at the Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina.
Also he taught graduate seminars in Brazil, Canada, and Germany. He published numerous articles and books on political economy of communication, political ecology and critical views on development. Moreover, Andrés Dimitriu worked at the National Institute of Rural Technology in Argentina (INTA), and as an independent journalist, editor of several publications and filmmaker. He was Secretary of Communication of the Province of Rio Negro, Argentina (1983-1987), and headed a regional research centre in Bariloche, Patagonia. He is
a founding member of the Canada-Comahue Center. Currently he is co-director of the indexed THEOMAI journal>
(http://revista-theomai.unq.edu.ar/), a member of the Rural
Reflection Group Argentina (http://www.grr.org.ar/), and of the People*s
Assemblies Against Plunder and Contamination of the Patagonia Region,
Argentina.
He is a board member of the Latin Union of Political Economy of
Information, Communication and Culture (ULEPICC)
http://www.ulepicc.org/quienes_somos.html
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