Deadline: 5/12/2022
Contact: Dimitra Gkitsa, Research Fellow, University College London
Email: d.gkitsa@ucl.ac.uk
Phone: 00442076798700
Virtual panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”
July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon
Organised by Dimitra Gkitsa (University College London), Katerina Genidogan (Leuphana University Lüneburg), and Maria Alexandrescu (University of Sheffield)
The commons has reemerged in the West as a concept and set of practices in struggles against neoliberal practices. However, in non-western contexts, the commons have had a more troubled and sometimes violent history, tied to colonial expansion, racial capitalism, and capitalocenic extractivism. Taking existing, abandoned, ongoing, and future infrastructures of extraction as a starting point, we are interested in approaching commons in conflict across divergence (Isabelle Stengers, Marisol de la Cadena).
We welcome contributions that examine different types of infrastructures such as (rusty, leaky) pipelines or (abandoned) oil wells, their debris, ruination processes, and associated environments, as sites of different and often overlapping kinds of struggle throughout their longue durée.
Potential topics can include, but are not limited to:
* colonial histories of infrastructure
* infrastructures and the (racial) capitalocene
* trans/formative effects of infrastructures on environments
* environmental racism and racial environmentalism
* indigenous and decolonial approaches to resisting, decommissioning, retrieving, and/or commoning infrastructures
* “slow violence” and contamination associated with infrastructures
* activist, artist, community practices of reclaiming or retrieving infrastructures
To be considered for this panel, please submit a paper proposal (250-300 words), along with a short biographical note (50-80 words), no later than 5th December, 2022. Send all submission materials to Dimitra Gkitsa (d.gkitsa@ucl.ac.uk), Katerina Genidogan (katerina.genidogan@leuphana.de), and Maria Alexandrescu (malexandrescu1@sheffield.ac.uk).
Please note, this CFP is for a pre-formed online (virtual) panel, which will be submitted for consideration to the conference organisers at the end of December. More information to follow in due course.
Posted on October 10, 2022
