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CfP Workshop Resources, Infrastructures and the Anthropocene: Dialogues between the Global-North and the Global-South
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 <br> <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> <br> <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 <br> <br>[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/vnd] <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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