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EXALT NEWS NOVEMBER 2020

Dear EXALT-community,

We hope everyone is doing well despite the turbulent times. Please find below the latest news and hear about events organized by the Global Extractivisms and Alternatives Initiative (EXALT). Feel free to distribute this newsletter to your own respective networks.

SESSION RECORDINGS FROM DOCTORAL STUDENTS PRE-CONFERENCE in October 2020 “(De)naturalising extractivism: investigating its social orders and resistances”

Prior to the EXALT Symposium last October, EXALT partnered with two doctoral programs from the Faculty Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki to coproduce an online annual conference as a pre-conference to the Symposium. The 7th Annual Conference for the Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences & the Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal and Regional Change explored the (de)naturalisations of extractivist practices. The session recordings can be found below, as well as on the EXALT website and EXALT’s Youtube-channel.

Keynote Cori Hayden - Crowding extractivism: Data and more-than-social media

Keynote Markus Kröger - Resistance to extractivisms: Dynamics, strategies and outcomes

Methods Workshop “Challenges of pragmatic RCT data collection during the COVID-19 pandemic” (with panelists: Anni E. Kajanus, Assistant Professor, Social and Cultural Anthropology Tuomas M. Ylä-Anttila, Associate Professor, Political Science Anne Kouvonen, Professor, Social Policy)

EXALT READING: Alternative Futures: India Unshackled

Read the latest: “Alternative Futures: India Unshackled”, (edited by KJ Joy & Ashish Kothari) which brings together scenarios of an India that is politically and socially egalitarian, radically democratic, economically sustainable and equitable, and socio-culturally diverse and harmonious. This open access book covers a wide range of issues and is a must-read for those interested in envisioning better futures for all. Previous: The previous EXALT Reading is an article published on the Journal Globalizations. Steve Keen's "The Appallingly Bad Neoclassical Economics of Climate Change" offers devastating critique of neoclassical climate economics and shows how lot of the research dramatically underestimates and misinterprets the risk of climate emergency. "If climate change does lead to the catastrophic outcomes that some scientists now openly contemplate, then these Neoclassical economists will be complicit in causing the greatest crisis, not merely in the history of capitalism, but potentially in the history of life on Earth."

EXALT Reading is a curated list of open access, topical and critical literature on Extractivism, Global Crises, Alternatives, Sustainability, Degrowth, Solidarity, Commons and everything in between! The literature-picks are posted biweekly on EXALT's Facebook-page and updated on the website regularly.

PUBLICATION: ORGANISING IN DEFENCE OF LIFE: THE EMERGENCE AND DYNAMICS OF A TERRITORIAL MOVEMENT IN SOUTHERN CHILE

By Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes (Published on the Journal Organization)

The aim of this paper is to examine how territorial movements, as distinct forms of place-based social movements, organise in defence of life against the threat of resource extraction on their land. Based on the experiences of Indigenous Lafkenche-Mapuche members of a protracted struggle against a pulp mill in southern Chile, the study seeks to address the following research questions: (1) How do territorial movements emerge and organise the defence of their threatened lives? and (2) How do diverging (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) territorial relations shape the dynamics of the struggle? Combining insights from Enrique Dussel’s ‘ethics of liberation’ with that of Indigenous ontologies, this study suggests that territorial movements emerge out of the awakening of a critical consciousness of the threat of death and the collective ‘desire to live’ that define the dynamics of the struggle. The findings demonstrate how the diverging territorial relations, the societally embedded ‘coloniality of power’, and the state and corporate induced violence shape the movement dynamics. Changes in the movement dynamics also occur as a result of the struggle itself, as the movement actors’ unified desire to live continuously transforms the people and shapes the territory they inhabit. DOI: 10.1177/1350508420963871

Read the full article here.

PUBLICATION: ALLI KAWSAY: EPISTEMOLOGY AND POLITICAL PRACTICE IN THE TERRITORIES, A POSSIBILITY FROM THE ANDEAN PLURIVERSE FOR ECOLOGICAL JUSTICE AND THE CARE OF MOTHER NATURE

By Eduardo Erazo Acosta (Chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies pp 1-17)

Indigenous communities are noted for being resilient. The following presentation is an epistemological-political action from the world of possibilities in the pluriverse of indigenous knowledge. The Alli Kawsay (Buen Vivir) and its political, cultural, and epistemic options offer the possibility to work collectively in favor of our ‘Mother Nature.’ From the urgent options to be heard in the current climate crisis and even more in the sociopolitical crisis, it is essential to strengthen respect for Mother Nature. This document arises from learning in indigenous communities in walking and listening to indigenous talk in the Andean region in high Andean and Amazonian communities. Presented here are elements of the rights of nature. The Alli Kawsay is an option to be lived urgently now, as a serious and fundamental option that originates from ancestral knowledge, is lived by millions in the global south, and that today is taken up again at the global level by activists and people aware of the care of nature as a subject of rights in the international political framework.

Full chapter here.

NEWS PIECE ON THE FIRST YEAR OF THE EXALT PODCAST: “Popularising research on extractivism and its alternatives”

Published on the University of Helsinki’s website

In celebration of the one year anniversary of the EXALT Podcast a brief news piece was published on the EXALT website on the podcast’s first year and the significance of approachable communication of research. “From large-scale mining, to eco-cultural pluralism, and harmful forms of conservation, the EXALT Podcast offers listeners, activists, and academics a space to explore and discuss the multiple ways extractivism shapes our world today and the possibilities for alternatives.”

Read the full article here.

PUBLICATION: ECONOMICS AND CLIMATE EMERGENCY

By professors Barry Gills & Jamie Morgan (published in Globalizations)

In this article professor Barry Gills (Global Development Studies, University of Helsinki) and professor Jamie Morgan (Leeds Beckett University) provide introductory comment for the collection of solicited essays on Economics and Climate Emergency published as a collection on the Journal Globalizations, and all of which are open access until the end of the year. In the article Gills and Morgan suggest that recent critique of the climate movement has broader systemic significance and this is indicative of issues that bear on the collected essays. This article is to rehearse some of the standard arguments leading to complacency and delay to action on climate change and ecological breakdown. DOI:10.1080/14747731.2020.1841527

Read the full article here.

EXALT PODCAST – LATEST EPISODES

Latest episodes:

Bonus episode: Year 1 Retrospective (and Outtakes)

Markus Kröger – What is the Best way to Push for Change?

Anja Nygren - How Does Extractivism Impact Frontier Families Over Generations?

Gutu Olana Wayessa - Why do people need to be consulted about big projects in their back yards?

Will LaFleur – What kind of connection do you have with your food?

The EXALT Podcast publishes monthly episodes focused on the themes of extractivisms and alternatives. Our guests come from academics, activism, and lived experience. A new conversation will be posted every month. Listen to us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, SoundCloud, Anchor, Google Podcasts, Breaker or RadioPublic.

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