Dr Brian Garvey
Reader
Work, Employment and Organisation
Area of Expertise
I favour and am experienced in participative and action research methodologies. I have consistently worked across disciplines, including sociology, environmental studies, geography, engineering and law, to place changes to work and labour in the context of new technologies, new sites of production and emerging commodity chains. I am regularly involved in creative group facilitation and worker representation beyond traditional academic practices.
Prize And Awards
- Best doctoral presentation
- Recipient
- 2003
Publications
- Cultivating space for contemporary resistance in Brazil's Amazon and Cerrado
- Garvey Brian, Mendonça Maria Luisa, Torres Mauricio, Stefano Daniela, Pitta Fábio
- Economic and Labour Relations Review Vol 34, pp. 825–839 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1017/elr.2023.58
- Confronting the degradation of labour and the nature in agro-industrial commodity chains in Brazil : the 'quilombolas' resistance
- Pistorio Bianca, Garvey Brian, Sambajee Pratima
- International Labour Process Conference (2023)
- Towards a synthesized critique of forest-based 'carbon fix' strategies
- Vian Jessica Enara, Garvey Brian, Tuohy Paul Gerard
- Climate Resilience and Sustainability Vol 2 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cli2.48
- Unlocking "lock-in" and path dependency : a review across disciplines and socio-environmental contexts
- Goldstein Jenny E, Neimark Benjamin, Garvey Brian, Phelps Jacob
- World Development Vol 161, pp. 1-22 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106116
- Grilagem, invasões e garimpo na bacia do Tapajós
- Torres Mauricio, Garvey Brian
- Direitos Humanos no Brasil (2022) (2022)
- Reprimarização e expansão territorial das commodities agrícolas no Brasil : dinâmicas, fatores, escalas e implicações
- Marini Perpetua Guilherme, Thomaz Junior Antonio, Garvey Brian
- Revista da ANPEGE Vol 18, pp. 817-844 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.5418/ra2022.v18i36.16381
Teaching
At the Department of Work, Employment and Organisation, I teach on several undergraduate and MSc courses and focus on labour, migration, organisational strategies and collective resistance linked to globalised commodity chains and extractive industries. I have supervised PhD and post doctoral studies on south-south migration, pesticide harm, forestry and land reform, labour organisation and gender, and community repsonses to dispoessession and deindustrialisation. I welcome interest from potential PhD candidates on any of the broad themes of my research.
Professional Activities
- Gender, Work and Organisation
- Speaker
- 28/6/2023
- Universidade Federal do Para
- Visiting researcher
- 6/5/2023
- International Labour Process Conference 2023
- Organiser
- 12/4/2023
- Sustainability month Strathclyde
- Organiser
- 1/3/2023
- “Illegal Gold Mining: Brazil, eco-destruction and resource theft in global commodity chains”
- Speaker
- 17/2/2023
- The interloping networks of terror, territory and primary commodity extraction on Brazil's Amazonian frontier
- Speaker
- 1/2/2023
Projects
- Climate change and the rise of precarious work among agriculture and construction workers in a small island developing state.
- Sambajee, Pratima (Academic) Garvey, Brian (Academic)
- Small island developing states (SIDS) are among the first and worst affected by climate change despite making a very small contribution to the overall global emissions that cause climate change.. For over 20 years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has played a key role in raising awareness of and implementing actions to manage the health risks of climate change, particularly global warming within SIDS (WHO, 2018) but the challenges remain. Risks can arise from direct exposures, indirect exposures and via economic and social disruptions (Smith et al., 2014). In this proposed research we focus on direct exposures to high atmospheric temperature extremes that are increasing in frequency and intensity in SIDS and are projected to continue along this trend (Hoegh-Guldberg, 2018). Specifically, we focus on Mauritius, an Indian Ocean-African SIDS, where there is an increasing trend of reported heat stress and heat-related injuries in the construction and agricultural sectors (ILO, 2019). We situate precarious work in the context of climate change, in this case extreme temperatures associated with global warming. We will examine climate change as a potential factor exacerbating experiences of precariousness among agriculture and construction workers, often migrants from global south countries like India, Nepal and Bangladesh. The study will collect evidence to (a) explore the relevance of climate change as a contributor and multiplier of precarity at work, and (b) produce occupational health policy-relevant evidence for workers in the two sectors. Both outcomes are timely for improving the climate change preparedness of relevant sectors in SIDS.
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2027
- (UN)EARTHING NEW PATHWAYS FOR A JUSTICE TRANSITION: CULTIVATING HOPE AND FOOD ON CONTESTED TERRAINS IN SCOTLAND, AMAZON AND THE ARCTIC
- Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator) Combe, Malcolm (Co-investigator) Shapovalova, Daria (Co-investigator)
- The programme brings together a multidisciplinary team of researchers from Law, Geography, Sociology of Work and Political Economy with leading figures from crofting, smallholding and indigenous communities in Scotland, the Amazon and Arctic.
This project aims to collectively produce and share both ancestral and new academic knowledge across a nexus that is critical to a just transition: the globalised financialisation of land for both the carbon and green economy, smallholder and community access to land, and sustainable production of food. These dimensions come to ground, literally, in arable land that has been an increasingly prized destination for corporate finance, with subsequent rising land prices and a deepening of contestation between commodity and food production. The programme is attentive to new policy instruments in Scotland including land reform, transparency and local empowerment and the plural ways in which other communities negotiate tensions between land asset capture for speculation, monocultures and energy forms on one hand; and rural or forest based livelihoods on the other.
The programme hinges on a hopeful dialogue across these frontiers in order to i) unearth commonality in values, experiences and aspirations for socially and ecologically committed cultivation of land; ii) investigate legal instruments within and across borders for their realisation; iii) make recommendations for effective policy implementation in Scotland. - 01-Jan-2022 - 03-Jan-2022
- (UN)EARTHING NEW PATHWAYS FOR A JUSTICE TRANSITION: CULTIVATING HOPE AND FOOD ON CONTESTED TERRAINS IN SCOTLAND, AMAZON AND THE ARCTIC
- Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator) Combe, Malcolm (Co-investigator)
- The programme brings together a multidisciplinary team of researchers from Law, Geography, Sociology of Work and Political Economy with leading figures from crofting, smallholding and indigenous communities in Scotland, the Amazon and Arctic.
This project aims to collectively produce and share both ancestral and new academic knowledge across a nexus that is critical to a just transition: the globalised financialisation of land for both the carbon and green economy, smallholder and community access to land, and sustainable production of food. These dimensions come to ground, literally, in arable land that has been an increasingly prized destination for corporate finance, with subsequent rising land prices and a deepening of contestation between commodity and food production. The programme is attentive to new policy instruments in Scotland including land reform, transparency and local empowerment and the plural ways in which other communities negotiate tensions between land asset capture for speculation, monocultures and energy forms on one hand; and rural or forest based livelihoods on the other.
The programme hinges on a hopeful dialogue across these frontiers in order to i) unearth commonality in values, experiences and aspirations for socially and ecologically committed cultivation of land; ii) investigate legal instruments within and across borders for their realisation; iii) make recommendations for effective policy implementation in Scotland. - 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2022
- UKRI CoA Covid Extension
- Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator) Portes Virginio, Francis Vinicius (Researcher) Cardesa-Salzmann, Antonio (Researcher)
- UKRI sponsored extension of projects affected by Covid-19
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2021
- Self-demarcation and scientific protection against pandemic, illegal logging and mining in Brazil's Amazon
- Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator)
- 15-Jan-2020 - 15-Jan-2022
- SELF-DEMARCATION IN THE TAPAJÓS BASIN: TERRITORIAL RESISTANCE TO FOREST DEVASTATION
- Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator) Torres, Mauricio (Co-investigator) Rocha, Bruna (Co-investigator)
- A collaboration between the Department of Work, Employment and Organisation and the Amazonian Institute of Family farming, Federal University of Para. In the Tapajós Basin, the traditional riverine community of Montanha and Mangabal have faced what is considered to be the most sophisticated act of land grabbing in the entire Amazon, carried out by the southern company Indussolo, which fraudulently appropriated 1,380,000 hectares3. Despite having its territory recognized as an Agroextractive Settlement the longstanding community is subject to land grabbing, illegal logging and mining.
Our research seeks to support community-based and judicial processes that defend their territorial rights towards the mutual protection of forest and livelihoods at a critical juncture in Amazonia policy - 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2021
Contact
Dr
Brian
Garvey
Reader
Work, Employment and Organisation
Email: brian.garvey@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3999