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From: M. Luísa Sousa 

Date: Fri, May 10, 2019 at 10:07 AM

Subject: [STS-Africa] CfP: Workshop Resources, Infrastructures and the

Anthropocene: Dialogues between the Global-North and the Global-South,

Caparica (Lisbon/Portugal), Sep. 18-20, 2019.

To: 





Call for Papers



Workshop *Resources, Infrastructures and the Anthropocene: Dialogues

between the Global-North and the Global-South*



Caparica Campus, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de

Lisboa, Portugal



18 - 20 September 2019







We welcome proposals for participation in the workshop *Resources,

Infrastructures and the Anthropocene: Dialogues between the Global-North

and the Global-South*, which will take place at *Caparica Campus, Faculdade

de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, between

September 18 and 20, 2019*.



Global resources and resource infrastructure play a significant role in

modern societies; through a variety of ambivalent historical processes,

they have come to entangle—and (re)produce tensions between and

within—countries in the Global South and the Global North. In recent years

discourses on geopolitical and domestic competition for natural resources

have further intensified. So have associated concerns on resource security

and circularity, socioecological vulnerabilities and inequalities, and a

host of other issues. How could and should we (re)think and (re)write our

global histories of resources and resource infrastructure in the age of the

‘Anthropocene’?



The workshop explores this question for two related topics:



·       Resource Spaces in the Global South: Engineering Landscapes and

Mindscapes;



·       Globally Entangled Resource Chains and Socioecological Change:

Sustainability and Global Justice in the Anthropocene.



In particular, we aim to mobilise research approaches and historical cases

that help scrutinize/problematize these issues from Global South and

South-North entanglement perspectives. The workshop will be based on a

variety of empirical case studies, intellectual viewpoints, methodologies

and literatures, and will focus on questions such as the following:



·       Which assumptions, knowledges, and methodologies are used in the

analysis of relations between the so called “Global North” and “Global

South” regarding natural resources, infrastructures, and their

environmental, social, economic and political implications? Which

assumptions are shared, and which are not, when approaching our case

studies? Do we have different notions and narratives about important

keywords such as “progress”, “development”, “nature”, “human

agency”,

“sustainability”, resource “scarcity” and “security”?



·       Which methodologies, research directions and questions are

innovative, relevant and needed in current and future projects on the

workshop topics? How can we encourage and help initiate and facilitate

future research in these directions and questions? Which opportunities can

we develop to increase productive cooperation of scholars in the Global

South and Global North in research on global resources, infrastructures and

their environmental, social and economic impacts?











*Workshop setup*



The workshop will be designed to maximize dialogue and discussion and not

consist of traditional presentations by all participants. Position papers

by invited scholars coming from Africa, Asia, Europe and South America and

focused short pitches by the other participants will serve to spark

discussions in different work formats.



Participants are expected to engage in the discussion of the main topics

either by bringing intellectual view points and/or presenting empirical

examples. The size of the workshop is limited to approximately 30 people,

in order to allow for the exchange of ideas and the development of concrete

future directions of research and collaborations.



Upon acceptance, all participants will receive further instructions and be

asked to provide short preparatory texts of about 2 pages before the end of

August.







*Travel and accommodation arrangements*



Travel and accommodation costs will be fully funded. Further information

will be given upon acceptance.







*How to apply*



Please send a motivation letter (max. 1 page) on your interest in the

topics of the workshop and how it relates to your research and a short bio

note (1 page) to luisacoelhosousa@fct.unl.pt before June 7, 2019, with the

subject “Application to Lisbon resources workshop”. Applicants will be

informed by June 20 of the result.







*Organisation*



The agenda and framing of the workshop reflect the three supporting

research projects agendas:



- "Anthropolands - Engineering the Anthropocene: The role of colonial

Science, Technology and Medicine on changing of the African landscape

",

coordinated by Maria Paula Diogo. The goal of this project is to contribute

to the international debate and scholarship on the theme of the

Anthropocene from the perspective of the History of Science, Technology and

Medicine, focusing on the case of the former Portuguese colonial African

empire.



- “EurReS - Challenging Europe: Technology, Environment and the Quest for

Resource Security

”,

coordinated by Matthias Heymann and “GREASE - Global Resources and

Sustainability of European Modernization, 1820-2020

”,

coordinated by Erik van der Vleuten. The goal of these two projects is to

develop international networks for historical research on societal

challenges related to natural resources, including contested issues such as

global sustainability entanglements, security regimes, socioecological

inequalities, governance, and so on.







These projects collaborate, and are embedded in, the explorative research

program "Technologies, Environment and Resources

" of

the Tensions of Europe research network.











We thank you for your attention to this call.



Best regards,



The organising team



Maria Paula Diogo, CIUHCT, FCT, NOVA University of Lisbon

M. Luísa Sousa, CIUHCT, FCT, NOVA University of Lisbon

Matthias Heymann, Aarhus University

Erik van der Vleuten, Eindhoven University of Technology

Frank Veraart, Eindhoven University of Technology



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