Dear all,
Some of you may be interested in submitting a paper to my panel at this year's ASA conference in Durham (4-7 July - see below). The deadline for the online submission of proposals is on 15 February.
Please email me if you have any questions.
All the best,
Juan Pablo
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Thinking otherwise at the extractive frontier: Conflict, negotiation, translation, and a more equitable conversation (http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa16/index.shtml<https://owa.dur.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?REF=X3ojHf8wmv-NqUkAeTTmfnP6-TPEspFZfKy5SdzBS-J_3d8aIhrTCAFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnRoZWFzYS5vcmcvY29uZmVyZW5jZXMvYXNhMTYvaW5kZXguc2h0bWw.>)
Convenor: Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti - [log in to unmask]<https://owa.dur.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?REF=SbY2GAssaGKTou5J40oacrzIsJakImx0VH62bIZ8y-9_3d8aIhrTCAFtYWlsdG86anVhbi1wYWJsby5zYXJtaWVudG8tYmFybGV0dGlAZHVyaGFtLmFjLnVr>
Deadline for proposals: 15 February 2016 - http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa16/cfp.shtml<https://owa.dur.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?REF=gRFG3m0pZUxW5Pjsja-64jJWUinEGVAzBfAgPmz87DJ_3d8aIhrTCAFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnRoZWFzYS5vcmcvY29uZmVyZW5jZXMvYXNhMTYvY2ZwLnNodG1s>
Panel Short Abstract
The panel engages the conflicts arising from clashes at the extractive frontier between local and mainstream policy understandings of nature, sustainability, and well-being. It aims at a more equitable conversation between these local understandings and wider (post) development policy and practice.
Panel Long Abstract
The discrepancy between different approaches to well-being, sustainability, and resource management, is most obvious when local populations in areas high in natural resources are faced with 'extractive' development. This has led to violent clashes between protesters and government forces worldwide that have been read as 'environmental conflicts'. Yet, this reading often lacks a clear understanding of the motivations behind different local ideas of well-being and sustainability, or how these might equitably articulate with mainstream (post) development policy and practice.
This panel aims at re-centring the perspectives of local actors at the extractive frontier to find a more equitable conversation between these understandings and wider policy and practice. Participants will engage with the political negotiations and everyday conflicts that arise from clashes between local and state way of knowing and engaging nature and/or their concepts of sustainability, well-being, development, and progress.
The panel will offer discussions engaging with, but not limited to, the following questions:
-What role can local ways of knowing nature play as a discourse and as a way of 'doing things otherwise' in terms of development theory and practice (e.g. SDGs, REDD+)?
-What can be learnt from placing local discourses and practices in conversation with Euro-American based sustainable alternatives to development (e.g. transition initiatives, de-growth)?
-How can these local approaches be translated and used in a more equitable conversation with scholarly and policy agendas on sustainability and well-being?
-What contribution can these local discourses and practices make to debates on environmental citizenship and social and environmental justice?
Dr Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti | Lecturer in Anthropology | Durham University
Web: https://www.dur.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/academic/?id=13030
Phone: +44 (0) 191 33 41624
Mobile: +44 (0) 789 12 84300
Sarmiento Barletti, J.P. 2015. 'The Ashaninka of Peru: Rescued from Shining Path militants, but still at risk', in The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/the-ashaninka-of-peru-rescued-from-shining-path-militants-but-still-at-risk-45410
Sarmiento Barletti, J.P. 2015. Of Tobacco and Wellbeing in Indigenous Amazonia. In The Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America. A. Russell and E. Rahman eds. London: Bloomsbury.
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-master-plant-9781472587541
Sarmiento Barletti, J.P. 2015. “It makes me sad when they say we are poor, we are rich!”: Of Wealth and Public Wealth in Indigenous Amazonia. In Images of Public Wealth in Tropical America or the Anatomy of Well-Being in Indigenous Amazonia. F. Santos-Granero ed. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2552.htm
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