Organizers: Filipe Calvã (IHEID), Nikkie Wiegink (Utrecht University), Espen Storli (NTNU), Simon Lobach (IHEID)
With funding of: Geneva Graduate Institute, SINTHLIVES (European Research Council, ERC), EASA Anthropology of Mining Network
The workshop gathers junior scholars whose research examines the paradoxes and contradictions -past and present- inherent in ‘environmentally-sound’ supply chains of critical natural commodities. The workshop brings together research on the conundrums of contemporary “green” commodity chains from historical and anthropological perspective. The workshop also includes a visit to an old smeltery and copper mine.