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Paper session at the Annual Conference of the AAG, Seattle, Washington
April 12-16, 2011: Tactics of Dispossession: Extraction, Accumulation,
Control
Expanded natural resource extraction regularly rests on processes of
dispossession. Despite resistance from affected populations,
dispossession is often successful. Indeed, as the ongoing global growth
of extractive industries makes clear, extractive economies may be
established and maintained either without or in spite of significant
opposition from those marginalised and disempowered. We posit that the
relative stability of many extractive economies does not occur without
effort and action; it is the result of specific strategies of control.
This paper session seeks to explore these ideological, institutional and
violent strategies used by powerful groups to maintain social and
political order when promoting transformations that negatively impact
the health, wellbeing and livelihood strategies of those living in
extractive zones. These strategies demonstrate a remarkable diversity -
from the development of CSR programs and efforts to control public
discourse to coercion and the militarization of mine sites. We invite
studies that investigate the tactics employed to minimise social and
political opposition to capital accumulation through the expansion of
extractive activities. In the hope of fostering a comparative
discussion, papers from both historical and contemporary contexts and a
diversity of theoretical traditions are welcomed.
Abstracts should be sent to Tomas Frederiksen
([log in to unmask]) and Matt Himley ([log in to unmask])
by Sunday October 17th.
Tomas Frederiksen (University of Toronto)
Matt Himley (Illinois State University)
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Tomas Frederiksen
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