[via Sabine Höhler]
Please be warmly invited to the workshop ”The social ecology of natural resource exploitation”, organized by the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm. The workshop will be held on 15 December 2015 at KTH main campus, Teknikringen 28, 5th floor, room K51.
Workshop description, program and map can be downloaded here.
Please register your participation latest on 8 December to Gunnel Cederlöf at gunnelce@kth.se
Programme
9:00 Introduction
9:15 ”Diverging discourses on bauxite mining in Eastern India: Life-supporting hills for adivasis or national treasure chests on barren lands?”, Patrik Oskarsson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
9:45 ”Colonization, decolonization, and the history of mining in modern Greenland”, Peder Roberts, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology
10:15-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:15 Comments and discussion, Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Shiv Nadar University (SNU), Arne Kaijser, KTH
11:15 ”People and Resources: Contested Terrains and the Republic”, Ajay Dandekar, SNU
11:45-12:30 Comments and discussion, Per Högselius, KTH, Radhika Krishnan, Linnaeus University
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30 ”Drivers of Change and Socio-Ecological Outcomes of Natural Resource Exploitation: Evidence from Field Research Studies in the Western Himalayas”, Rinki Sarkar, independent researcher, New Delhi
14:00 ”Sustainable Communities and the Legacies of Mining in the Nordic Arctic”, Dag Avango, KTH
14:30-15:00 Coffee
15:00-15:45 Comments and discussion, Jaideep Chatterjee, SNU, Gunnel Cederlöf, KTH
15:45-16:30 Final discussion