When: Wednesday 3 December, 5pm

Where: Main Seminar Room, 1st floor, David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QZ

CCI and UNEP-WCMC are delighted to host interdisciplinary social scientist Jaya Gajparia for a talk discussing the findings of her work with ACCESS in decolonising the conservation and environment sectors in the UK.

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Jaya’s work focuses on social justice and environmental issues, supporting efforts to build a fairer, more sustainable world by focusing on how power, inequality and structural injustice play out in everyday life. Jaya started her career in the third sector, where she worked closely with marginalised communities affected by poverty, racism and exclusion which has informed her academic work.

Jaya takes a decolonial feminist ethnographic approach that carefully considers power, positionality, accountability, and responsibility throughout the research process. Drawing on feminist and decolonial traditions, Jaya engages with communities not as subjects of study, but as co-creators of knowledge. Jaya’s work challenges extractive and hierarchical models of research by centring lived experience, story, emotion, and embodiment.

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This talk is part of CCI’s In Conversation series which aims to underline CCI’s potential as a place for debate and convening, where pioneering ideas are introduced, taken forward and shared within and beyond the CCI and conservation community.

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Registration for in-person tickets will close at the end of Monday 1 December.

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