Events of the Anthropology of Mining Network
FUTURE EVENTS
Writing workshop – GREEN EXTRACTIVISM
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
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Dates: September 28 – October 1st, 2023
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.
PAST EVENTS
The global life of mines: Mining and post-mining between extractivism and heritage-making
University of Cagliari – 21-22 November 2019
The aim of the workshop was to bring together anthropological perspectives and ethnographic studies on mining and post-mining across a broad range of geographical contexts.
Organizers: Filippo M. Zerilli, Francesco Bachis, Tatiana Cossu, Felice Tiragallo (University of Cagliari), Domenico Branca (University of Sassari), Antonio Maria Pusceddu (CRIA-IUL Lisbon)
WORKSHOP: Anthropology of Mining Network
Mining Temporalities. Ideas, experiences and politics of time in extractive industries
20 - 21st of July, Utrecht University in The Netherlands
The topic of the EASA2016 panel has been further developed during a workshop held in Utrecht (NL) with the EASA funding (funding for inter EASA conference event).
The two-day workshop resulted in a special issue to be published in EXIS. Papers are currently under review and publication is expected in March 2018.
Mining temporalities: ideas, experiences and politics of time in extractive industries. Panel at EASA2016.
Convenors:
Lorenzo D'Angelo, University of Milano-Bicocca
Robert Pijpers, University of Oslo
Chair Sabine Luning, Leiden University
Discussant: Samuel Spiegel, University of Edinburgh
During the 2016 EASA conference in Milan the network has successfully organized the panel ´Mining Temporalities´. During the panel we discussed the various ways in which (ideas and perceptions of) time and temporality play a role in natural resource extraction. Interest in the panel was remarkable with 23 submissions.
During EASA2016 the network also hosted its first network meeting. During this meeting, the convenors gave an update about the past activities and the attendants discussed future activities: a newsletter (spread via the mailing list), a network event next year and mini-profiles to be published on the networks website. Hedda Haugen (University of Newcastle) has been appointed to prepare and coordinate the newsletter. In addition, the two network convenors have been re-elected and will continue to serve for the next two years.
