The Latin American & Latino/a Studies program invites the university community to a LAST series. This series will explore the social, economic, and ecological consequences of natural resource extractivism in Latin America. Scholars trace the macro-political economic demands for non-renewable finite resources in the region including US and Chinese investment and influence in key industries. While at the same time, scholars will examine the ways in which resource extraction has altered the built environment, re-figured social, labor relations, and gender. Drawing on long-term, ethnographic research in Bolivia and Ecuador, the speakers also imagine and envision more environmentally and socially just futures.
Series Dates and Locations:
Thursday, October 26, 2017 Dr. Gabriela Valdivia (Associate Professor of Geography at UNC) “Living with Oil in Ecuador” at 4:00 Lecture Hall, Towson University. For more on Living with Oil, See http://crudeoil.web.unc.edu
November 8, 2017 Dr. Thomas Perreault (Professor of Geography at Syracuse University) “Mining Meaning and Memory in the Andes” at 4:00 p.m. Lecture Hall, Towson University
November 28, 2017 Dr. Bret Gustafson (Associate Professor of Anthropology at Wash U) “Fossil Capital and Revolutionary Affect in the Bolivian Chaco” @ 4 p.m. at Johns Hopkins University November 29, 2017 Dr. Bret Gustafson (Associate Professor of Anthropology at Wash U) “Fossil Capital and Revolutionary Affect in the Bolivian Chaco” at 4:00 p.m. Lecture Hall Towson University
Tuesday December 5, 2017 Dr. Penelope Anthias (Postdoctoral Fellow @ University of Copenhagen) Book Talk “Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco,” (Cornell Press, Forthcoming) at 4:00 p.m. Lecture Hall Towson University.
For more information, please contact Dr. Nicole Fabricant nfabricant@towson.edu. The series is sponsored by: IDIS, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice, Department of Geography, Department of History and The Center for Student Diversity at Towson University.
