Teacher: Camille Parguel

Time: 10.15 - 12.00

Place: 302

2023 02 08 - sustainable development.pptx

Conflicts on indigenous lands are often linked to natural resource extraction. ‘Sustainable development’ discourses such as the energy transition are increasingly associated with extractive activities. In this lecture, we analyse and question this phenomenon.

Mandatory readings

Dunlap, Alexander, and Jostein Jakobsen. 2020. ‘The Worldeater(s) in Process: Uncovering the Nexus of Conventional and “Green” Extraction’. In The Violent Technologies of Extraction: Political Ecology, Critical Agrarian Studies and the Capitalist Worldeater, edited by Alexander Dunlap and Jostein Jakobsen, 91–118. Cham: Springer.

Nachet, Louise, Caitlynn Beckett, and Kristina Sehlin MacNeil. 2021. ‘Framing Extractive Violence as Environmental (In)Justice: A Cross-Perspective from Indigenous Lands in Canada and Sweden’. The Extractive Industries and Society, 100949. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2021.100949.