Extractives@Clark organized two paper sessions Contemporary extractivism in Latin America 1: Representations and Reconceptualizations This panel explores manifestations of contemporary extractivism in Latin America, as well the ways in which it can be conceptualized and represented. Extractivism goes beyond extractive industries (mining, oil, and gas) and may be better understood as a logic of rent […]
Protected areas and other area-based governance systems are a cornerstone of conservation efforts. When well-designed and managed, these systems can reduce habitat and biodiversity loss, mitigate carbon emissions, and alleviate […]
Extractives@Clark presents Andrew Curley (Diné) In 2021 the Navajo Generating Station, a long standing symbol of coal energy in the southwest, was demolished. The power plant ended operations the previous […]
Laudato Si' Research Institute A multidisciplinary conference exploring the disproportionate impact of ecological degradation on women, with a special focus on environmental and gender injustice such as that arising from […]
"Extractives and GIS: Solar Panel Fields and Forest Loss in Massachusetts/ Uganda-Tanga Crude Oil Pipeline Potential Impact" Click here to access the Zoom link John Rogan - Professor at […]
Speaker: Felipe Milanez, Professor at the Institute for Humanities, Arts and Sciences Professor Milton Santos and the Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Program in Culture and Society, of the Federal University of Bahia, […]
Once the realm of science fiction fantasy, the prospect of huge machines being lowered onto fragile deep seabed ecosystems to mine for metals is now only two years away from […]
South American scholars and activists have proposed buen vivir and post-extractivism as utopian paradigms of alternative nature/society relationships rooted in indigenous knowledges. This talk reassesses and modifies these abstract concepts, proposing […]
The Blackstone Commons Expedition — a 60-mile, four-day paddle along the Blackstone River, from Worcester to Providence, organized by the Blackstone Watershed Collaborative at Clark University — will kick off with a press event at the Blackstone Heritage Corridor Visitor Center.
The Blackstone Commons Expedition will conclude with a final celebration at Narragansett Brewing in Providence, including a screening of the short film “Kittacuck Speaks” and a program of speakers.
In this documentary, a research team travels to the “Last Ice Area” to measure the world’s largest and oldest sea ice floes. They know the data, the models, and the science, but none of that has prepared them for the truth on the ground. A discussion with the filmmakers will follow.
Professor Paul Posner will moderate a Q&A session with Beatriz Bustos Gallardo, professor at the Universidad de Chile, about the 2019 social revolt in Chile that led to the writing and referendum of a new constitution. The constitutional assembly included leaders from ecological movements, and an ecological lens was central to the whole document.
