Workshop at SOAS: Political Ecologies of Resource and Rent extraction

30th of November in London

The first out of two planned ENTITLE workshops at SOAS University will take place on the 30th of November 2015, on the theme of extraction from a Political Ecology perspective. Invited speakers include a number of ENTITLE fellows and mentors.

The workshop is organized by Professor Rosaleen Duffy and Professor Giorgos Kallis and aims to explore the changing political economy and ecology of resource extraction, interrogating the financialization of old and new commodities, and the changing politics of extraction, in agriculture and the mining sector, especially in Latin America.

Rosaleen Duffy is Professor of Political Ecology of Development, Department of Development Studies at SOAS University of London; and Giorgos Kallis is ENTITLE coordinator, Leverhulme Visiting Professor at SOAS and Professor at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Practical information:

When: 30th November 2015
Where: Torrington Room Senate House, University of London Space is limited.The workshop is free of charge.

Program

9.30-10.00	Coffee and arrival
10.00-10.10	Welcome & Introduction, Professors Rosaleen Duffy and Giorgos Kallis (SOAS)
10.10-11.30	Dr.Leandro Vergara-Camus, Senior Lecturer SOAS, Agriculture. Rentierism and the State in Latin America: the Current Contradictions Dr Isabella Radhuber, Post-doc Fellow, University of Vienna Interculturality and political ecology: challenges for Bolivia and Ecuador's resource governance
11.30-11.45	Coffee break
11.45-13.05	Diego Andreucci, Entitle Fellow, PhD candidate, ICTA-Autonomous University of Barcelona Resource governance, post-neoliberalism and the state: Lessons from Bolivia’s hydrocarbon sector Marta Conde, PhD candidate, ICTA-Autonomous University of Barcelona Resistance to mining: why in some places and not others?
13.05-14.05	Lunch Time
14.05-15.10	Prof. Gavin Bridge, Durham University Placing extraction
15.10-15.25	Coffee and arrival
15.25-.14.45	Julie de los Reyes, Entitle Fellow, PhD candidate, University of Manchester Financialising gold extraction: The (in)compatibilities of high finance and the primary sector Dr Patrick Bigger, Entitle Post-doc Fellow, University of Manchester Financial climates: Enrolling and sequestering finance in atmospheric governance