Webinar program

This is the preliminary program for the webinar conference "Green Extractivism & Violent Conflict" on June 17, 2022, starting at 8:45 CEST.

Please note this is a preliminary program and is subject to change. All times in the program are indicated in Central European Summer Time (CEST). If you would like to check what this is in your time zone, is a link to our favorite time zone converter.
Opening, Keynote 1 & Panel 1

8.45–9.00 - Opening words - (University of Helsinki) and (University of Helsinki)

9.00–9.40 - Keynote 1: What is Green Extractivism? Exploring Past Research and New Frontiers by  (University of Oslo) (25min lecture, 15 min Q&A)

9.40–9.45 - BREAK

9.45–11.15 - Panel 1: The Green Mining - Violence Nexus

Chair:  (University of Sheffield)

  • Interrogating the Majors’ Strategies in the Green Transition: From Miners to Material Solutions Providers? by (Lund University) &  (London Mining Network)
  • The Enabling Ideologies of Australia’s New Green Extractive Frontier: A Narrative Analysis by (University of Tasmania)
  • A Predatory Connection: Nickel-Coal Extraction, Oligarch and Green Energy in Indonesia by (University of Passau),  (JATAM, Indonesia), 

    Adlun Fiqri (Journalist and citizen from Weda Bay, North Maluku, Indonesia), Muhammad Taufik (Jatam Central Sulawesi, Indonesia). Short opening comment by   (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona) 

  • Violence and ‘Green’ Extractivism-induced Socioenvironmental Changes in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique by (Utrecht University)

11.15-11.30 - COFFEE BREAK
Panel 2 & Keynote 2

11.30–13.00 - Panel 2: The Entanglements of Green Extractivism, Militarism & Conservation

Chair:  (University of Oslo)

  • The ‘Green War’: Geo-Political Metabolism and Extractivism by (University of British Columbia) & (University of British Columbia)
  • Biodiversity Conservation under Armed Neoliberalism and Green Extractivism by (Trinity College Dublin)
  • Mapping Extractive Aggressions: The Case of the Iberian Mining Observatory (MINOB) by Nik Völker (MiningWatch Portugal) and (Åbo Akademi)
  • Making Green Cocoa in Post-conflict Côte d’Ivoire by (University of Lille) & (University Félix Houphouët-Boigny)

13.00–13.30 - LUNCH BREAK

13.30–14.10 - Keynote 2: Making coal sustainable? How nature conservation, corporate power and state violence create green extractivist fantasies in the German Rhineland by (University of Sussex) (20min lecture, 20 min Q&A)

14.10–14.15 - BREAK
Panel 3

14.15–15.45 - Panel 3: The Coloniality of Green Extractivism

Chair: (University of Coimbra and University of Amsterdam)

  • Decarbonisation by Dispossession: Violence and Extractivism in the Case of Nickel by  (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona), (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), (Erasmus University Rotterdam), (University of Vienna), 

    (Coimbra University, Portugal & International Institute of Social Studies-Erasmus University Rotterdam), Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona), and JD Farrugia  (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)

  • Wind Imaginaries: Renewable Energy and War in Western Sahara by  (Northumbria University)

  • New Masks, Old Colonialism: Wind Energy Projects in the Occupied Western Sahara and the Syrian Golan Heights by (Lund University),  (London School of Economics), & (Lund University)
  • When Green Becomes Saffron: Caste, Class, and Identity Conflicts in Borderland India Wind Extraction Frontier by (University of East Anglia & University of Copenhagen)

15.45–16.00 - COFFEE BREAK
Panel 4 & Keynote 3

16.00–17.30 - Panel 4: The (Geo)Political Ecology of Green Extractivism & Land Control

Chair: (Northumbria University)

  • Consensus by Coercion? Green Extractivisms and (Non-)violent Forms of Reproduction of the Imperial Mode of Living in the Chilean, Mexican and Peruvian Mining Sector by  (University of Vienna),  (University of Vienna) &  (University of Vienna and the Berlin School of Economics & Law)
  • Enforcing ‘Green’ Extractivism: Social Warfare and the Making of the Critical Raw Material Frontier in Portugal by  (University of Oslo) & (University of Coimbra)
  • Infrastructures of Enforcement: Wind farms and stratified violence in Wallmapu (Chile) by  (University of Copenhagen) 
  • Dark Sides of Sustainability: Exploring Global Uneven Development and Future Geopolitical Tensions by  (University of Kassel) &(University of Kassel)

17.30–17.35 - BREAK

17.35–18.00 Keynote 3 – Reflections on Green Extractivism and Violence by  (University of Sheffield)