Critical Research on Industrial Livestock Systems (CRILS) network (CRILS) Online Workshop | December 9, 2026 | 3-5 PM GMT (16:00-18:00 CET // 09:00-11:00 CST) ................................
In this workshop, we will discuss the promises and limitations of the One Health framework for understanding the relationship between humans, other animals, and ecologies entangled in Industrial Livestock Systems. We aim to explore where One Health presents productive and critical analytical possibilities, alongside a discussion of its limitations, by moving beyond exclusively biomedical perspectives. The workshop will critically discuss how land use, agroecological change, and circuits of capital emerge as key dynamics for rethinking One Health as a framework attentive to the structural dynamics that lead to health crises. ....................Speakers....................Rob Wallace is an evolutionary epidemiologist with the Agroecology and Rural Economics Research Corps. He is the author of Big Farms Make Big Flu and coauthor of Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19 and Clear-Cutting Disease Control: Capital-Led Deforestation, Public Health Austerity, and Vector-Borne Infection. He has consulted with the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention........................Mariel Aguilar-Støen is a Professor of Human Geography and the deputy director of the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. Her work explores agrarian change, industrial agriculture, and extractive industries in Latin America and Scandinavia. Building on this work, her research increasingly examines the relationships between industrial livestock production, environmental change, and emerging infectious diseases, contributing to a structural and critical approach to One Health, which culminated in the co-edited book Structural One Health? A critical geography perspective on emerging infectious diseases and livestock..............................
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