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Grounding Circulations of the Global in China and Angola: Some Possibilities for the Present and the Future

How can Angola’s oil-driven urban regions deepen our understanding of urban environmental policy? This question was a focal point of...

Dec 15, 20236 min read

LGBT+ Movements in Angola: A Current Overview

In the past decade, Angola has witnessed the rise of new activist groups focused on gender and sexuality. But what brings these gender...

Dec 15, 20236 min read

Chinese Investments in Angola: The Power of Recent Changes

How have Chinese investments impacted Angola’s socioeconomic transformations in recent decades? This is one of the central issues...

Nov 22, 20233 min read

Unveiling Queer Aesthetics and Ruin Discourses in Postcolonial Art: A Talk by Sadia Abbas

Sadia Abbas describes Shazia Sikandar’s work Pleasure Pillars (2001) as “a world of women upheld by women,” where female figures resist...

Nov 8, 20235 min read

Social Dynamics between Chinese Environmental NGOs and the Global South: Challenges and Achievements

Between October 25th and 28th, 2023, dozens of scholars, students, researchers, activists, indigenous leaders, youth leaders and...

Oct 28, 202343 min read

The Future of the Amazon: Successes of the Orfalea Center’s Major International Conference on the Environment, Indigenous Youth and Women’s Leadership, and the Impact of Chinese Finance and Partnershi

The Orfalea Center conference brought together over 50 scholars from six countries, along with 10 indigenous leaders and Latin American...

Oct 27, 20236 min read

Eco-Futurism and Neocolonialism: The Hidden Costs of Global Development Models

At the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies hosted an impactful...

Oct 25, 20234 min read

Challenges of Extractivism in Ecuador: Patriarchy, Environmental Degradation, and Community Resistance

The UCSB Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies convened scholars, policymakers, and indigenous activists from October 25th to...

Oct 24, 20234 min read

Gendered Impacts and Resistance Strategies Against Extractivism in Ecuador

Held from October 25th to 28th, 2023, the UCSB Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies hosted a pivotal conference on...

Oct 24, 20233 min read

Strengthening Connections: Collaboration of Indigenous Communities in the Development of Environmental Policies in Ecuador

The UCSB Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies hosted a historic conference from October 25th to 28th, 2023, bringing...

Jun 30, 202313 min read

Revolutionizing Global Citizenship through Undergraduate “Research for Action”

In the 2022-2023 academic year UCSB undergraduate students were selected from a pool of applicants to participate in the exceptional...

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