Publications

Sweet dreams? : Testing prognostics and reinterpreting sugarcane ethanol biofuel in Brazil

Sica de Campos André Luiz, Garvey Brian, Tyfield David, de Mello Leonardo Freire

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (2024)

Mining the Amazon

Borges Thais, Garvey Brian

(2024)

From securitisation to martialisation : logistics of humanitarian protection in Brazil’s Amazon

Portes Virginio Francis, Garvey Brian, Stewart Paul

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758241256824

Floresta Doente

Audio Visual Collective Wakoburun, Garvey Brian

(2024)

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 (2024)

Map of Affections

de Lima Maria, Garvey Brian

(2024)

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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

Mining the Amazon

Recipient

5/9/2024

Reweaving the Wind

Host

14/5/2024

Extraction and appropriation

Participant

8/5/2024

Confronting the degradation of labour and the nature in agro-industrial commodity chains in Brazil: the ‘quilombolas’ resistance

Contributor

4/4/2024

Counter-mapping thought and affection

Participant

8/3/2024

Contemporary issues for land, labour precarity and resistance Centre for Political Economy of Labour Colloquium programme

Participant

7/3/2024

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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-Dec-2023 - 30-Sep-2027

The Unauthorised Biography of Globalised Commodity Chains

Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator) Torres, Mauricio (Co-investigator)

Focusing on the Brazilian Amazon, this project explores how illicit labour and resource exploitation contribute to contemporary commodity trades as a system of global (dis)order.

01-Apr-2023 - 31-Mar-2025

(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-Mar-2022 - 03-Nov-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-Feb-2022 - 31-Jul-2022

UKRI CoA Covid Extension

Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator) Portes Virginio, Francis (Researcher) Cardesa-Salzmann, Antonio (Researcher)

UKRI sponsored extension of projects affected by Covid-19

01-Jun-2021 - 30-Sep-2021

Self-demarcation and scientific protection against pandemic, illegal logging and mining in Brazil's Amazon

Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator)

15-Oct-2020 - 15-Apr-2022

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