Dear colleagues,
We kindly invite you to submit your paper proposals to our panel ´Mining
temporalities: ideas, experiences and politics of time in extractive
industries´ at EASA 2016
(http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4052). The
conference will take place in Milan from 20-23 July. The call for papers
closes on February 15th 2016.
With kind regards, and all the best for 2016,
Lorenzo D´Angelo & Robert Pijpers
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* EASA2016: Anthropological legacies and human futures
* Department of Human Science for Education 'Riccardo Massa' and
Department of Sociology and Social Research at University of Milano-Bicocca
* 20-23 July, 2016
* P017: Mining temporalities: ideas, experiences and politics of time in
extractive industries.
* To view the panel and submit your paper:
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4052
_Short Abstract_
Resource extraction is often seen as a process of transformation of a
space, rarely as a complex temporal process. Following the recent
anthropological debates on the anthropology of time, this panel invites
to submit proposals that examine temporal dimensions of mines and
extractive processes.
_Long Abstract_
This panel welcomes ethnographic analysis that examines the relationship
between resource extraction and time. There are, at least, two ways of
considering this relationship.
First, being more than a spatial feature of landscapes, mines can
also be understood as temporal landscapes in which past experiences
intertwine with present concerns, and miners', local communities`,
companies' or states' expectations for the future. Understanding how
past, present and future are incorporated and shape mining life cycles,
or how these temporal dimensions become grounds of possible disputes are
some of the aspects that this panel invites to explore.
Second, resource extraction itself is a process influenced and made
of a multitude of interconnected temporalities, such as commodity
markets oscillations, mining booms and busts and the seasonality and
rhythms of the extractive activities and other local modes of
production. How do these temporalities articulate and what are the
perceptions, ideas, and temporal experiences of different members within
the mining community? How do individuals or institutions make sense of,
or take decisions when they have to deal with the discrepancies between
what they know, or imagine, about the past and what they expect and hope
for the future?
This panel is open to proposals that shed light on these and other
issues like, for example, the 'politics of time' (S. Kirsch) through
which dominant social actors in the mining industry attempt to
manipulate the temporal perceptions of others and orientate their
decisions, or the mechanisms that simultaneously produce physical,
social and temporal violence (J. Smith).
--
Robert Pijpers
PhD Candidate
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Oslo, Norway
M (Norway): +47 41071610
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www.uio.no/overheating
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