{"id":111,"date":"2014-03-07T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/after-development\/?p=111"},"modified":"2014-03-07T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T09:19:00","slug":"debates-resource-extraction-fair-trade-africa-conceptualising-global-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/after-development\/2014\/03\/07\/debates-resource-extraction-fair-trade-africa-conceptualising-global-dimensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Debates on Resource Extraction and Fair Trade in Africa: Conceptualising the \u201cGlobal\u201d Dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size: 16px\">By <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/centreofafricanstudies.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/05\/debates-on-resource-extraction-and-fair-trade-in-africa-conceptualising-the-global-dimensions\/\">centreofafricanstudies<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">Sam Spiegel<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">On February 26 and 27, two events were held in Edinburgh to discuss resource extraction and fair trade in Africa. Having had the chance to reflect on them both, both excellent stimulating events, I wanted to share some preliminary thoughts \u2014 and to also draw your attention to an upcoming event \u2013 the CAS Annual Conference \u2013 this year on \u2018Mining and Political Transformations in Africa&#8217; (coming up soon \u2013 April 24-25, 2014)!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">The first event in February was a panel discussion event at the University of Edinburgh, with a group of panellists including <a class=\"rssmi_more\" href=\"http:\/\/centreofafricanstudies.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/05\/debates-on-resource-extraction-and-fair-trade-in-africa-conceptualising-the-global-dimensions\/\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Debates on Resource Extraction and Fair Trade in Africa: Conceptualising the \u201cGlobal\u201d Dimensions\" href=\"http:\/\/centreofafricanstudies.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/05\/debates-on-resource-extraction-and-fair-trade-in-africa-conceptualising-the-global-dimensions\/\">Debates on Resource Extraction and Fair Trade in Africa: Conceptualising the \u201cGlobal\u201d Dimensions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By centreofafricanstudies Sam Spiegel On February 26 and 27, two events were held in Edinburgh to discuss resource extraction and fair trade in Africa. Having had the chance to reflect on them both, both excellent stimulating events, I wanted to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/after-development\/2014\/03\/07\/debates-resource-extraction-fair-trade-africa-conceptualising-global-dimensions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/after-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/after-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/after-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/after-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/after-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/after-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/after-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/after-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/after-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/after-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}