Dear colleagues,
See below.
All the best,
Pat
Dr Patricia Noxolo,
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Katy Jenkins [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 11 July 2017 11:27
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Subject: CFP SLAS 2018 panel - Women, Activism and Resource Extraction in Latin America
Apologies for cross-posting, please note imminent deadline…
Call for Papers – Society for Latin American Studies Annual Conference 2018, 22-23rd March 2018
Women, Activism and Resource Extraction in Latin America
Kyra Grieco (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) and Katy Jenkins (Northumbria University)
Women are recognised as key actors in many resource-related conflicts across Latin America, playing an active role in community organising and in women’s organisations contesting proposed and existing extractive projects across the region. Emerging research focuses on understanding women’s responses to large scale resource extraction, how and why they are contesting extractivism, and the challenges they face in doing so. This panel aims to draw together research from different country contexts across Latin America to interrogate and critically analyse women’s varied involvement in contesting resource extraction in the region, seeking to understand the salience of gender, and other aspects of identity, in shaping natural resource conflicts. As resource conflicts often extend over many years, we are interested to interrogate the changing nature of women’s involvement in activism, and the challenges they face in sustaining this over time. How does women’s activism change as conflicts disappear from the spotlight, and becomes embedded in daily lives and activities? What opportunities emerge for women within and beyond communities as a result of their involvement in activism and community organising? How do women navigate changed community dynamics and power relations in the context of extractive activities?
Abstracts are invited for papers that engage critically with questions including, but not limited to:
• How do women mobilise different aspects of their identities in contesting resource extraction?
• How and why do women mobilise against proposed and existing extractive activities and what are the challenges they face in doing so?
• What challenges do women leaders face within and beyond their communities?
• How do power relations and community dynamics shift with women’s sustained involvement in activism? To what extent are new spaces opened up for women to be participate in community decision-making?
• What are conceptual and methodological challenges involved in conducting research on this topic?
• How do women who support resource extraction, or may be ambivalent about it, negotiate their place in communities?
• What alternatives to resource extraction do women’s organisations propose or enact?
• How do experiences of violence and intimidation shape women activists’ experiences and identities?
• To what extent do women’s organisations engage with mining companies (if at all) and particularly their CSR activities? How does this shape their activism?
• How are women’s organisations organising transnationally to contest large-scale resource extraction?
Please send abstracts of 200 words to us both by Saturday 15th July. The deadline for submitting panel proposals to SLAS is Sunday 16th July.
Kyra Grieco ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Katy Jenkins ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
Dr Katy Jenkins
Associate Professor of International Development
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Department of Social Sciences
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