UPCOMING
All Spring 2020 Postponed
Thea Riofrancos - Assistant Professor of Political Science, Providence College
"Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador"
20 March
Martín Abregú - VP International Programs, Ford Foundation
"Natural Resource Extraction as a Problem of Social Justice: What Role for Civil Society?"
The Albert, Norma, and Howard Geller Lecture of the George Perkins Marsh Institute
2 April
Clark University Student Research on Extractives
Short presentations showcasing student research projects on resource extrction and
society from 2019-2020
23 April
PAST
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
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
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