No âmbito do Mestrado em Geografia Humana: Globalização, Sociedade e Território, realiza-se uma conversa com o autor Markus Kröger (University of Helsinki), a propósito dos seus mais recentes livros: Clearcut. Political Economies of Deforestation, publicado pela Cambridge University Press, e Extractivisms, Existences and Extinctions. Monoculture Plantations and Amazon Deforestation, publicado pela Routledge.

O encontro terá lugar no dia 18 de novembro de 2025, às 17h00, na Biblioteca do IGOT, com moderação de José Luís Zêzere.

Os comentários às obras estarão a cargo de Mário Vale, João Carlos J. Silva e Ana Clarissa Stefanello, sobre Clearcut, e de Sandra Oliveira, Nuria Guerreiro e Margarida Queirós, sobre Extractivisms, Existences and Extinctions.

Bio: Markus Kröger, Dr. in Social Sciences (World Politics), is a Professor of Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki. Professor Kröger is one of the founding members of The Global Extractivisms and Alternatives research initiative (EXALT.fi). He has written extensively on global natural resource politics, conflicts, and social resistance movements and their economic outcomes, especially in relation to mining, forestry and agriculture. He is also an expert in political economy, development, and globalization in Latin America, India, and the Arctic.