Le Département de géographie de l'Université Memorial de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador accueillera le 74e congrès annuel de l'ACG à St. John's, Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, du 14 au 18 août 2024 !
Titre de la session: Mining, legacy waste, and logics of extractivism
Type de session: Regular Talk (15-minute); in-person.
Organisateurs : Caitlynn Beckett (Université Memorial de Terre-Neuve) ; Arn Keeling (Université Memorial de Terre-Neuve)
Résumé de la session :
Modern mining is fundamentally a waste management industry. Sebastian Ureta and Patricio Flores trace the “logic of residualism” (the so-called 'waste') produced by extraction that entails an intense technical and logistical focus on “the production and management of colossal amounts of mining residues, mostly tailings.” Access to public air, lands, and waters for waste containment, disposal or dispersal is integral to the mineral development process; without it, mining simply cannot proceed. Gabrielle Hecht links this logic to forms of waste governance that treat people and places as wastelands, while constraining or minimizing the forms and forums of knowledge used to reduce, mitigate or repair pollution and toxicity. Yet the current global drive to exploit “critical” mineral resources to support the transition away from fossil fuels fails to acknowledge how the twinned logics of extractivism and residualism threaten to (re)produce environmental damage and injustice in the name of climate mitigation.
This session invites contributions from researchers, students, and collaborators confronting the logics of residualism, waste, and extractivism across the mining cycle, whether in Canada or elsewhere. We invite contributions that consider the social and political aspects of waste management, reclamation, and resistance in various locations and contexts. Potential themes and topics could include:
- Historical geographies of mine waste and pollution
- Intersections of mineral development, mine closure, reclamation, and (settler) colonial relations
- “Residual governance” of mine waste, including environmental assessment and reclamation
- Community response, reaction, and resistance to “wastelanding”
- Community-led and/or culturally informed strategies of mine reclamation
Veuillez envoyer vos demandes et/ou vos résumés (250 mots maximum), en indiquant le titre de la contribution proposée, le nom de l'auteur ou des auteurs, leur affiliation (par exemple, Memorial University), leur fonction (par exemple, étudiant, professeur, collaborateur de recherche ou autre) et leurs coordonnées à Arn Keeling (akeeling@mun.ca) au plus tard le mercredi 17 avril.
Les participants recevront une réponse avant le 23 avril (avant la date limite d'inscription à tarif réduit fixée au 27 avril). Les communications ne pouvant être incluses dans la session spéciale peuvent être soumises à l'appel général de la conférence : https://www.cag-acg.ca/cag-2024-home