Masterclass: Project MISTY: Migration, Sustainability, and Transformation in Worcester

Join IDCE Director Ed Carr and Professor Anita Fabos as they discuss an innovative research project that focuses on migration for a transformation to sustainability in six cities around the world, including Worcester. Migration is a key adaptive strategy for millions of people around the world, but it is often treated as an afterthought by sustainable development advocates. Will the movement of people make sustainability easier to achieve, or will it compromise our efforts?

• • Instructors: Ed Carr and Anita F�bos
  • Bio: Ed Carr is a geographer and anthropologist whose career focuses on exploring alternative ways of achieving meaningful and enduring improvements to human well-being. His work provides insights into the ways development and adaptation interventions impact human well-being, both positive and negative, how livelihoods work to order agrarian and other worlds, and how resilience presents both barriers to, and opportunities for, the transformative changes needed to manage our world. He also directs the Humanitarian Response and Development Lab (HURDL). HURDL’s wide-ranging work includes policy development, and project and program design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, all undertaken with the goal of assisting individuals and communities to build foundations for innovative development. He is the author of more than 70 publications on issues of development, livelihoods, adaptation to climate change, and the evolving global environment. His research is intimately connected to efforts to produce policies and programs that improve the human condition. He is currently the Panel Member on Climate Change Adaptation on the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility. Previously, Carr served as the first climate change coordinator for USAID’s Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, and later served as an adviser on the Climate Change Team in the Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and the Environment. Carr has also served as the lead author of two prior global environmental assessments, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and The United Nations Environment Programme's Fourth Global Environment Outlook, and is a lead author for Working Group II of the current Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

 

• Bio: Anita F�bos is an anthropologist and Professor of International Development, Community and Environment at Clark University. Formerly the Director of the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies program at the American University in Cairo, and later Programme Coordinator for the graduate program in Refugee Studies at the University of East London, F�bos has integrated teaching, research, and participatory programs that have incorporated refugee and forced migrant perspectives into collaborative work with scholars, practitioners, refugee organizations, policy makers, and international organizations. At Clark University, students in her classes have carried out community-based projects that have investigated refugee participation in community development initiatives, refugee access to higher education, refugee livelihoods in Worcester, and experiences of belonging and home for people from refugee and non-refugee backgrounds. Anita has worked and conducted research together with Muslim Arab Sudanese in the diaspora on transnational identity and mobility in the Middle East, Europe, and North America.  She has published widely on topics related to race, ethnicity, and gender identities for people on the move, Muslim mobilities, and the acoustics of diaspora.. She is currently working on a book with Cathrine Brun on home and home-making for people living in long-term displacement.

 

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