Kees Jansen
This site describes the research and teaching activities of Kees Jansen, associate professor in the Rural Sociology group at Wageningen University (the Netherlands). I work in the fields of political ecology, critical agrarian studies and international development. My current research focusses on pesticide risk governance and the greening of the agrarian question. My major field work experience is in Latin America, but I have also been involved in research project in other parts of the world (the Philippines, Kazakhstan, Southern Africa). I intend to contribute to the further development of political ecology. Theoretically I am interested in rethinking linkages between technology and social justice, and between political ecology and risk theories. Using some key insights from critical realist theory we may be able to better conceptualize technology/nature-society interactions. In 2023 I have joined the editorial team of the Journal of Agrarian Change.
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