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- Convenors:
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Nikolaos Olma
(University of the Aegean - Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, ZMO)
Deana Jovanovic (Utrecht University)
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- Format:
- Workshop
Short Abstract:
This panel welcomes papers that examine how (post-)extractive communities navigate the intertwined (un)common and (un)commoning temporalities of (post-)extractivism, including the contradictions between narratives of progress and decline, and the tensions between remediation and irreversible loss.
Long Abstract:
The burgeoning literature on resource extraction and its afterlives has generated significant insights into the projected, imagined, and speculative futures that emerge after extraction ends. However, these futures represent only one of the many temporalities that (post-)extractivism produces while appropriating, exploiting, and uncommoning resources and landscapes. Economically disadvantaged communities often embrace extractivism as the only perceived path towards a more prosperous socio-economic future. Vice versa, as ore bodies are depleted and extraction sites become abandoned, former mining communities turn towards the past, invoking nostalgic narratives that romanticise the “golden days” of industrial prosperity. Museums transform the history of extractivism into a cultural legacy, overlooking or sanitising the associated hardships, sacrifices, and environmental degradation. And remediation efforts seek to return post-extractivist landscapes to an ambiguous and ahistorical “before,” a static state that denies the complex and layered temporalities of extraction and its aftermath.
This panel welcomes papers that examine how communities navigate the intertwined (un)common and (un)commoning temporalities of (post-)extractivism, including the contradictions between narratives of progress and decline, and the tensions between remediation and irreversible loss. What can extractive and post-extractive communities teach us about the broader politics of time in post- and late-industrial landscapes? How do they challenge or reinforce dominant understandings of progress, recovery, and nostalgia in the context of deindustrialisation and environmental harm? What do remediation practices reveal or obscure about the irreversible transformations wrought by extractive industries? And how is each of these practices involved in processes of (un)commoning time, resources, and landscapes?