URBAN NATURE - Episode 6: Tania Li and Gabriel Kozlowski

In this episode, Gabriel Kozlowski and Tania Li discuss the
concept of land and its inscription, colonization by plantation
corporations, modes of distribution beyond the “proper job,” and
ethnographic approaches to the practice of politics.


Tania Li is a professor of anthropology at the University of
Toronto. She's known for her studies concerning land, labor,
capitalism, development, politics, and indigeneity with a
particular focus on Indonesia. Her work crosses multiple fields
like geography, planning, law, and environmental studies, while
bringing different actors together from activists to policymakers
to make sense of transformations brought about by processes such
as land reform, rural class formation, struggles over forests and
their conservation, state-organized resettlement initiatives, and
problems faced by people who are pushed off their land. Her books
include the award-winning Lands End, Capitalist Relations on an
Indigenous Frontier, Plantation Life, written with Pujo Semedi,
The Will to Improve, Governmentality, Development and the
Practices of Politics, the edited volume of Powers of Exclusion,
and many more.


https://www.taniali.org/


Gabriel Kozlowski is a Brazilian architect and curator. He works
on questions pertaining to urbanization from the perspective of
political ecology. In Urban Nature, Kozlowski talks to prominent
thinkers who have been pushing the boundaries of how we
understand the relationship between humans and the natural
environment.