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                Call for Papers
<br>Workshop Resources, Infrastructures and the Anthropocene: Dialogues between
<br>the Global-North and the Global-South
<br>Caparica Campus, Faculdade de Cincias e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de
<br>Lisboa, Portugal
<br>18 - 20 September 2019
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<br>We welcome proposals for participation in the workshop Resources,
<br>Infrastructures and the Anthropocene: Dialogues between the Global-North and
<br>the Global-South, which will take place at Caparica Campus, Faculdade de
<br>Cincias e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, between
<br>September 18 and 20, 2019.
<br>Global resources and resource infrastructure play a significant role in modern
<br>societies; through a variety of ambivalent historical processes, they have
<br>come to entangleand (re)produce tensions between and withincountries in the
<br>Global South and the Global North. In recent years discourses on geopolitical
<br>and domestic competition for natural resources have further intensified. So
<br>have associated concerns on resource security and circularity, socioecological
<br>vulnerabilities and inequalities, and a host of other issues. How could and
<br>should we (re)think and (re)write our global histories of resources and
<br>resource infrastructure in the age of the Anthropocene?
<br>The workshop explores this question for two related topics:
<br>
<br>         Resource Spaces in the Global South: Engineering Landscapes and
<br>Mindscapes;
<br>
<br>         Globally Entangled Resource Chains and Socioecological Change:
<br>Sustainability and Global Justice in the Anthropocene.
<br>In particular, we aim to mobilise research approaches and historical cases
<br>that help scrutinize/problematize these issues from Global South and
<br>South-North entanglement perspectives. The workshop will be based on a variety
<br>of empirical case studies, intellectual viewpoints, methodologies and
<br>literatures, and will focus on questions such as the following:
<br>
<br>         Which assumptions, knowledges, and methodologies are used in the
<br>analysis of relations between the so called Global North and Global South
<br>regarding natural resources, infrastructures, and their environmental, social,
<br>economic and political implications? Which assumptions are shared, and which
<br>are not, when approaching our case studies? Do we have different notions and
<br>narratives about important keywords such as progress, development,
<br>nature, human agency, sustainability, resource scarcity and
<br>security?
<br>
<br>         Which methodologies, research directions and questions are
<br>innovative, relevant and needed in current and future projects on the workshop
<br>topics? How can we encourage and help initiate and facilitate future research
<br>in these directions and questions? Which opportunities can we develop to
<br>increase productive cooperation of scholars in the Global South and Global
<br>North in research on global resources, infrastructures and their
<br>environmental, social and economic impacts?
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>Workshop setup
<br>The workshop will be designed to maximize dialogue and discussion and not
<br>consist of traditional presentations by all participants. Position papers by
<br>invited scholars coming from Africa, Asia, Europe and South America and
<br>focused short pitches by the other participants will serve to spark
<br>discussions in different work formats.
<br>Participants are expected to engage in the discussion of the main topics
<br>either by bringing intellectual view points and/or presenting empirical
<br>examples. The size of the workshop is limited to approximately 30 people, in
<br>order to allow for the exchange of ideas and the development of concrete
<br>future directions of research and collaborations.
<br>Upon acceptance, all participants will receive further instructions and be
<br>asked to provide short preparatory texts of about 2 pages before the end of
<br>August.
<br>
<br>Travel and accommodation arrangements
<br>Travel and accommodation costs will be fully funded. Further information will
<br>be given upon acceptance.
<br>
<br>How to apply
<br>Please send a motivation letter (max. 1 page) on your interest in the topics
<br>of the workshop and how it relates to your research and a short bio note (1
<br>page) to luisacoelhosousa@fct.unl.pt
<br>before June, 7, 2019, with the subject Application to Lisbon resources
<br>workshop. Applicants will be informed by June 20 of the result.
<br>
<br>Organisation
<br>The agenda and framing of the workshop reflect the three supporting research
<br>projects agendas:
<br>- "Anthropolands - Engineering the Anthropocene: The role of colonial Science,
<br>Technology and Medicine on changing of the African
<br>landscape", coordinated by Maria Paula Diogo. The goal of this project is to
<br>contribute to the international debate and scholarship on the theme of the
<br>Anthropocene from the perspective of the History of Science, Technology and
<br>Medicine,  focusing on the case of the former Portuguese colonial African
<br>empire.
<br>- EurReS - Challenging Europe: Technology, Environment and the Quest for
<br>Resource
<br>Security, coordinated by
<br>Matthias Heymann and GREASE - Global Resources and Sustainability of European
<br>Modernization,
<br>1820-2020, coordinated by Erik van der Vleuten. The goal of these two
<br>projects is to develop international networks for historical research on
<br>societal challenges related to natural resources, including contested issues
<br>such as global sustainability entanglements, security regimes, socioecological
<br>inequalities, governance, and so on.
<br>
<br>These projects collaborate, and are embedded in, the explorative research
<br>program "Technologies, Environment and
<br>Resources" of the Tensions of Europe research network.
<br>
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<br>We thank you for your attention to this call.
<br>Best regards,
<br>The organising team
<br>Maria Paula Diogo, CIUHCT, FCT, NOVA University of Lisbon
<br>M. Lusa Sousa, CIUHCT, FCT, NOVA University of Lisbon
<br>Matthias Heymann, Aarhus University
<br>Erik van der Vleuten, Eindhoven University of Technology
<br>Frank Veraart, Eindhoven University of Technology
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