PLACE MATTERS
lecture by Dr. John Gaventa
Thursday, March 1, at 7:00 in Memorial Hall
John Gaventa is a world-renowned scholar on international
development and global citizen activism. He is currently director
of the Coady International Institute and vice-president of
International Development at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova
Scotia. Before that, he was a fellow and project director at
the Institute for Development Studies of the University of Sussex,
professor of sociology at the University of Tennessee, and
director of the Highlander Center. A Rhodes Scholar with a Ph. D.
from Oxford University and winner of the famed MacArthur
Prize, Gaventa is the author or editor of nine books and numerous articles.
His first book, Power and Powerlessness, won best book awards
from the American Political Science Association, the Southern
Political Science Association, the Southern Regional Council,
and the Appalachian Studies Association. While at the
Highlander Center, he directed the largest participatory action
research project ever carried out in the U.S., Who Owns
Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impacts.
Since his pathbreaking work on Appalachia, he has become a
leader in critical studies of development and activism on a
global scale.
Everyone is invited to talk with John Gaventa at a reception
following his lecture. Faculty and grad students interested in
talking further about their projects, or his, are invited to a
drop-in with Prof. Gaventa between 9:30 and 11:30 on Friday,
March 2 at the Appalachian Center, 624 Maxwelton Court (across
from the law school).
