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Extractivism Annual International Conference 2022

El proyecto de investigación colaborativa Extractivism.de organiza su primera Conferencia Anual Internacional del 12 al 14 de octubre de 2022 en Kassel, Alemania. El tema de la conferencia es

“Raw Materials, the Global South and Development in the 21st Century: mobilizing rents, grasping extractivist societies”.

La conferencia de este año pretende reconceptualizar la relación teórica entre el extractivismo y las rentas, estimulando análisis más profundos sobre los tipos particulares y variados de las trayectorias de desarrollo basadas en las rentas. Queremos explorar cómo y de qué manera las sociedades especializadas en la extracción y exportación de materias primas se reproducen principalmente a través de las rentas obtenidas por su venta al mercado global. También buscamos reunir ideas de diferentes campos disciplinarios en los cuales temas como las rentas y extractivismo tienen gran relevancia, ampliando el espacio de diálogo entre la Economía Política, la Ciencia Política, la Sociología, la Antropología, las Relaciones Internacionales y los Estudios Culturales.

Por favor, inscríbase en el evento aquí: www.extractivism.de/annualconference22/

La conferencia se celebrará en un formato híbrido, y las reuniones tendrán lugar en el Golden Tulip Kassel.

Aquí encontrará una versión actualizada del programa:

Welcome Session

  • Kai Ruffing (Dean of the Faculty of Social Science, University of Kassel): Extractivist Societies in Historical Perspective
  • Hans-Jürgen Burchardt (University of Kassel)/ Rachid Ouaissa (Philipps-University of Marburg)/ Hannes Warnecke-Berger (University of Kassel): Rent, Society, and the Dark Side of Sustainability

Panel 1: Raw Materials and Development: A Critical Discussion of Rent Theory

  • Eva Paus (Mount Holyoke College): International Political Economy of Rent and Extractivism
  • Hannes Warnecke-Berger (University of Kassel): Towards a Surplus Approach of Rent
  • Dirk Loehr (FH Trier): Land – The Hidden Redistribution Machine
  • Balihar Sanghera (University of Kent)/ Elmira Satybaldieva (University of Kent): Rentier Capitalism and its Countermovements: The Moral Economy Perspective

Keynote Lecture (Gießhaus der Universität Kassel)

  • James Mahon (Williams College): Are Extractivist Societies too Rich to Prosper?

Panel 2: Rent, Class, and Politics

  • Fatiha Talahite (CNRS/University of Paris Nanterre): Criticism of Rent Theories and the Coloniality of Extractivism: The case of Algeria
  • Markus Kröger (University of Helsinki, EXALT): Extractivist Rents, Development and the End of Cheap Commodities
  • Martin Beck (University of Kurdistan Hewlêr)/ Thomas Richter (GIGA Hamburg): State, Class, and Autonomy in Hydrocarbon Societies: A Revival
  • Juan Kornblihtt (Conicet / ICI-UNGS/ FFyL-UBA): Ground Rent Appropriation, Extractivism or Natural Capital Depletion? Quantitative evidence from South America following Marx’s critique of political economy

Panel 3: Rent and Agency

  • Richard Saunders (York University): Domestic Actors, Resource Nationalism Politics and the Redefining of Extractivism in Southern Africa
  • Jessie Moritz (Australian National University): Researching Citizen Activism: A Society-Centric Approach to Rents & Development
  • Rafael Dominguez (University of Cantabria): Rents, Extractivism, and Resource Nationalism in Colombia and Ecuador

Panel 4: Managing Rent

  • Amir Lebdioui (London School of Economics): The Political Economy of Managing Resource Rents for Economic Diversification: International Experiences
  • Sambit Bhattacharyya (University of Sussex): Oil Discovery, Boom-Bust Cycle, and Manufacturing Slowdown: Evidence from a Large Industry Level Dataset
  • Juan Pablo Jimenez (FLACSO Argentina): Tax Regimes and Natural Resource Rents

Panel 5: Conceptual Travails and Travelling Concepts: Rents in MENA

  • Mourad Ouchichi (Abderrahmane Mira de Bejaia, Algeria): Rentier Capitalism in Algeria
  • Sajjad Faraji Dizaji (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran): Oil Rents and Middle Class in Iran and the Maghreb
  • Moustapha Taleb Heidi (Centre de Recherches de l’Ouest Saharien, Nouakchott): Artisanal Mining and Extractivism in Mauretania

Panel 6: Conceptual Travails and Travelling Concepts: Rents in Latin America

  • Pedro Alarcón (Justus-Liebig-University Gießen): “Reloaded Extractivism”: Rent, the State, and the Energy Transition in Ecuador
  • Julieta Godfrid (Autonomous University of Chile): Corporate Social Responsibility and Mining Extractivism in Chile
  • Jochen Kemner (CALAS): Energy, Fossil Fuels, and Raw Material Regimes in Latin America in the Longue Durée

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