Dear Colleague,
please let me draw your attention to the panel “New global enclosures and uncertain livelihoods in our ‘overheated' world”, to be held at the IUAES Congress in Dubrovnik (4-9 May 2016) — see the abstract and an overview below. Abstract deadline is February 29th - papers can still be proposed at: http://iuaes2016.com/congress-panel/panel-30-09-2015-181203-elisabeth-schober/ <http://iuaes2016.com/congress-panel/panel-30-09-2015-181203-elisabeth-schober/>
Best wishes,
Elisabeth Schober (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oslo)
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Panel title:
New global enclosures and uncertain livelihoods in our “overheated” world
Panel short abstract:
Engaging with contested processes of natural resource acquisition, conflicts over ownership, and the question of how to make a living, this panel will discuss the widespread commodification of communal land and water that is occurring with ever increasing speed nowadays.
Panel keywords:
enclosures, globalisation, labour, land, land-grabbing, livelihoods, natural resources, overheating, water
Panel Text:
The commodification of communal land and water, occurring with ever increasing speed over the last few decades, is a much commented upon phenomenon that has wreaked havoc in many places of the world. With the loss of natural resources as a common good often understood to be the outcome of a process termed ‘accumulation by dispossession’ (Harvey), the phrase of ‘land grabbing’ and its equivalent of ‘water grabbing’ have recently been much discussed, too.
The cumulative costs of global capitalism keep piling up, and the more impoverished human populations tend to bear the brunt of the price to be paid for the ‘Great Acceleration’. The double-bind between unbound economic growth and the survival of our environment becomes particularly acute for those people who depend on access to natural resources for their livelihoods.
In this panel, we also want to explore the tensions and conflicts that ensue from contested property claims and different concepts of ownership to land and water. How are the notions of ‘the commons’, and of ‘public’ or ‘private’ ownership understood, articulated and negotiated by different stakeholders?
Inspired by Tania Li, who has pointed to the often surprising labour arrangements forged between “land grabbers” and original settlers, we invite papers that engage with processes of natural resource acquisitions, conflicts over ownership and the question of how to make a living. The papers should therefore engage with how people’s inclusion vs. exclusion from domains of economic growth is linked to their (non-)access to communal water and land.
Panel Convenors:
Elisabeth Schober
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
Astrid Bredholt Stensrud
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
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