UPCOMING
Fall 2021
Event Series Lineup
Prefiguring Buen Sobrevivir: Post-extractivist, Communitarian Feminist
Practices for Good Survival
Benjamin Fash is an artist and PhD Candidate at Clark University. His activist
research with social movements is concerned with colonialist resource extraction
and experiments with alternative economies, primarily in Honduras. He is co-director
of the documentary Por la Vida, celebrating Lenca women's communitarian feminist
practices. He is also co-founder of Cine Bolomchon, a community-based film
production and exhibition collective.
Expanding Mining’s Frontier to the deep seabed: What could
possibly go wrong?
Dr. Catherine Coumans has coordinated corporate accountability research and
the Asia-Pacific program at MiningWatch Canada for 20 years. She has worked
in solidarity with communities and Indigenous peoples affected by Canadian
mining companies in more than ten Asia-Pacific countries and in Tanzania.
She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology and has published on mining in more
than 15 peer reviewed publications since 2008.
Dr. Felipe Milanez, is an Assistant Professor, with tenure, at the
Institute for Humanities, Arts and Sciences, an interdisciplinary
research center at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Milanez
has taught at the Federal University of Reconcavo, Bahia. He received
his PhD from the University of Coimbra in 2015.
Friday, September 17th 4:30pm
At Libbie Lounge - Geography Building
or join us on Zoom HERE
Imagining Collective Futures in the Amazon
Wednesday, September 15th 12:00pm to 1:15pm
This event is virtual and will be held in English and Portuguese
with simultaneous translation to both language.
To register, click HERE.
Co-sponsored with: Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center
for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS)
PAST
Spring 2021
Event Series Lineup
Dr. Sarah Kelly, Postdoctoral Scholar at Dartmouth College in
the Department of Anthropology and at the Centro de
Investigación para la Gestión Integrada del Riesgo de Desastres
in Santiago de Chile. She is a water-energy geographer and
political ecologist.
"Intercultural methodologies for confronting neo-extractivism
in the Willimapu, Chile"
May 7th 4pm
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Documentary Screening and Panel
¿Qué les pasó a las abejas? "What happened to the bees?
Ambulante A.C., Mexico
Panel Participants:
Robin Canul Suárez, documentary photographer and journalist, focuses
on human rights and environmental issues.
Leydy Pech, Goldman Environmental Prize, Mayan Beekeper.
Jorge Fernández Mendiburu, Human Rights lawyer. NGO "Indignación".
May 5th Noon
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Anna Bario
Bario Neal Co.
"Ethical sourcing in jewelry: metals, diamonds and gemstones"
A look at traceable, responsible materials from small-scale mining and
recycled goods in the jewelry sector, and areas for greatest impacts from
a jeweler's perspective
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Andrew Curley, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the School
of Geography, Development & Environment (SGDE) at the
University of Arizona. His research focuses on the everyday
incorporation of Indigenous nations into colonial economies.
"T’áá hwó ají t’éego and the end of the Navajo coal industry"
March 26, 4pm
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Rachel Golden Krone, Ph.D. is a social scientist at the Moore
Center for Science at Conservation International, focused on
environmental governance. She leads the organization’s work on
PADDD.
"The impermanence of protected areas: challenges and opportunities for
conservation science, policy, and practice"
March 12, 4pm
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Fall 2020
Esther Figueroa - PhD, Jamaican independent film maker, writer, educator
and linguist.
"Fly Me To The Moon” Jamaica and the Global Aluminum Industry. How the Periphery Makes the
Center Possible
Register HERE for FREE Pre-event Movie Screening
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16 October, 4pm
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Thea Riofrancos - Assistant Professor of Political Science, Providence College
Coauthor of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal.
Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2020-2022) Radcliffe Institute Fellow (2020-2021).
"Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador"
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2 October, 4pm
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John Rogan - Professor at the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University
"Extractives and GIS: Solar Panel Fields and Forest Loss in Massachusetts/ Uganda-Tanga
Crude Oil Pipeline Potential Impact"
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25 September, 4pm
Winter 2019-2020
Extractives@Clark organized two paper sessions at the
Conference of Latin American Geography in Antigua, Guatemala :: 2-4 January, 2020
Contemporary extractivism in Latin America 1: Representations and Reconceptualizations
This panel explores manifestations of contemporary extractivism in Latin America, as well the ways in which it can be conceptualized and
represented. Extractivism goes beyond extractive industries (mining, oil, and gas) and may be better understood as a logic of rent capture
that involves the extraction of natural resource rents without restoration of those resources nor of the socio-natural relations that they
previously sustained. Extractivism can be manifest, then, as development strategies based on synergies between infrastructure, extractive
industry, agro-industry, extensive ranching and similar, as well as in the form of smaller scale activities operating with logics of rent capture
without restoration or care. Alternatives to extractivism refer not only to alternative economic activities, but also to alternatives logics based
not on rent capture but diverse forms of socio-natural cohabitation. The academy, civil society, private and public sector actors have
represented extractivism and its alternatives in diverse ways. The papers in this panel document a range of extractivisms and
alternatives, and diverse means of representing and conceptualizing these.
Contemporary extractivism in Latin America 2: Representations and Reconceptualizations
Extractivism always involves violence, but the forms taken by such violence vary in kind and degree as well as across space and time and
intersect in complex ways with the governance of the territories in which resource extraction occurs. This panel explores such violences
and their implications for territorial governance and control, as well as the conditions under which more inclusive and peaceful forms of
governance might emerge. The panel addresses cases from both Mesoamerican and South America, in particular covering territories
affected by mining, hydrocarbons, tourism, and extractive logging.
Fall 2019
Ximena Warnaars - Program Office, Natural Resources and Climate, at The Ford Foundation
Career-focused Brown Bag
19 September (Wed.), 2pm : Jefferson, Room 202
Scott Sellwood - Senior Program Advisor, Extractive Industries, at Oxfam America
Career-focused Brown Bag
9 October (Wed.), 1pm : IDCE House, Granville Room
Roy Maconachie - Reader in International Development, University of Bath
"Voices from he Mine: Artisanal diamonds and resource governance in Sierra Leone"
21 October (Mon.), 6pm : Dana Commons, Fireside Lounge
Cesar Gamboa - Executive Director, Derechos, Ambiente, y Recursos Naturales (Peru)
"Threats to the Amazon: Fire and Infrastructure"
4 November (Mon.), 6pm : Sackler, Room 121
Jose Martinez-Diaz - Director of Engagement, Greenpeace USA
Conversation on activism and environmental careers
22 November, 4pm : Libbey Lounge (Geog. 104)
Summer 2019
Anthony Bebbington and Denise Humphreys-Bebbington
Report Launch of “Evaluación y alcance de la industria extractiva y la infraestructura
en relación con la deforestación: Amazonía”
Recap of event (ESP) can be found HERE
5 July 2019 : Lima, Peru
Anthony Bebbington and Denise Humphreys-Bebbington
Book Launch of “Gobernanza de las industrias extractivas: politica, historia, ideas”
Video recap of event (ESP) can be found HERE
5 July 2019 : Universidad del Pacifico, Lima, Peru
Fall 2018
Anthony Bebbington
Second Forum of the National Human Rights Ombudsperson: "Perú en Diálogo: Transformando conflictos sociales en
desarrollo para todos y todas"
17 September 2018 : Lima, Peru
Anthony Bebbington - Extractivism and territorial governance
Belén Noroña - Mining as epistemic violence: Erasure of Indigenous epistemologies in the Amazon region of Ecuador
Andrew Davis - Extractive economies, new "regimes of rule" and implications for social movements in Central America
Discussant: Christian Brannstrom
Nicholas Cuba - Landsat time series show the nature and magnitude of the impact of mineral extraction on agriculture and natural vegetation in the Peruvian Highlands
Denise Humphreys Bebbington - Infrastructure development, resource extraction and threats to forest communities in Mexico
Laura Aileen Sauls - Examining the socio-environmental impacts of extractivist policy in Central America
Benjamin Fash - Re-presenting extractivism and alternatives from Honduran social movements
