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CP458


Multispecies Temporalities and Technoenvironmental Racialization in Latin America 
Convenors:
Mara Dicenta (William and Mary)
Alberto Morales (Drexel University)
Columba González-Duarte (The New School for Social Research)
Nathalia Hernández Vidal (University of Oregon)
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Chair:
Alberto Morales (Drexel University)
Discussants:
Elaine Gan (Wesleyan University)
José Gómez (Universidad de Cuenca)
Format:
Closed Panel
Location:
HG-10A33
Sessions:
Tuesday 16 July, -
Time zone: Europe/Amsterdam

Short Abstract:

We propose the concept of “techno-environmental racialization” to explore the co-constitution of race and time-making in The Americas. In this panel, we present four studies of human and other-than-human worlds involving seeds, ants, butterflies, and beavers.

Long Abstract:

Recent multispecies scholarship has explored human and more-than-human time-making processes and their interdependence (Gan, 2017, Tsing, 2015; Fitz-Henry, 2017). Some scholars have examined worldmaking practices that challenge the Eurocentric framing of the Anthropocene (Davis & Todd, 2017; De la Cadena, 2019); changing water, land, and animal relations through Black and Indigenous timelines (Roane, 2022); and industrialized other-than-human life under technocapitalist time (Blanchette, 2015; Chao, 2022; Hinchliffe et al., 2016). Such perspectives on time-making underline the co-production of technoscience, power, and racialization (Foster, 2019; Gan, 2021). While STS has examined experimental or disciplinary times in science (Vostal et al., 2019), temporalities of care (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2015, 2017), and forms of anticipation (Adams et al., 2009), this panel considers Indigenous, decolonial/anti-colonial movements and philosophies (Quijano and Clímaco, 2014; Rivera Cusicanqui, 2018; 1984; Tola et al., 2019; Whyte, 2017) that accentuate how capitalist-modernist-colonial temporal regimes subjugate place-based temporalities by advancing racial formations for dispossession and accumulation. We propose the concept of “techno-environmental racialization” (Hernandez Vidal 2022, González-Duarte and Méndez-Arreola - forthcoming, Dicenta 2023, Morales - forthcoming) to explore the co-constitution of race and time-making in The Americas through five studies of human and other-than-human worlds involving seeds, crops, ants, butterflies, and beavers. We explore how multiple, contradictory, and other-than-human temporalities expand and open space for liberatory subjectivities, landscapes, and worldmaking projects that tend to relations of life, care, and time-place making. How do human and other-than-human temporalities operate as conduits for techno-environmental racialization? In what ways do temporal rhythms observed in our studies challenge or reinforce existing sedimentations of techno-environmental racialization(s)? How do other-than-human temporalities help understand emerging eco-political transformations?

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Tuesday 16 July, 2024, -