<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Anne-Emanuelle Birn</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:ae.birn@utoronto.ca">ae.birn@utoronto.ca</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><br>
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<div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">The commodity boom of the early twenty first century reshaped economies, landscapes, and livelihoods throughout Latin America.
Skyrocketing prices for oil triggered the expansion of unconventional drilling technologies in new and established locations in Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil. Governments in Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Peru capitalized on increasing
global demand for food to push the agribusiness frontier ever deeper into the Amazon. Advances in battery technologies and growing calls for a post-petroleum ‘energy transition’ lead to speculation and investment in the ‘Lithium Triangle’ in Chile, Bolivia,
and Argentina. And, these lists are only a very partial accounting. Unlike earlier moments in Latin America’s long extractivist history, governments across the region, often deployed revenues derived from natural resources to support</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">pro-poor
policies, including conditional cash transfers, infrastructure investments, regional integration, and a return to state-lead schemes for economic and social development. Variously considered in terms of </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">progressive
extractivism</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">neoextractivism</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">, and </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">the
commodity consensus</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">, the resulting reordering of the state, society, and nature across the region, explicitly rejected the neoliberalization of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, while at the same
time emphasizing decolonial ethics and the primacy of social mobilizations and social movements in politics. </span></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Despite much hope, for often particular internal, regional, and global reasons, this neoextractivist turn never really
lived up to its promises; after several years sputtering to a standstill in many countries the progressive extractivist moment in Latin America definitively ended in 2019 with the fall of Evo Morales in Bolivia. Yet, even in places that never joined the so-called
‘Pink Tide’ of progressive governments, notably Colombia and Mexico, neoextractivism offered, and continues to offer, a powerful frame for critically assessing the relationships between nature, development, democracy, and subjectivity at scales ranging from
the interpersonal to the planetary. </span></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">This multidisciplinary working group provides a network to appraise the histories and legacies of neoextractivism in Latin
America and the Caribbean. Our immediate aims are to organize panels for the 2021 Congress of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (to be held at the University of Toronto), and to produce a special edition of the </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">Canadian
Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">We welcome proposals for article and presentation, including, but by no means limited to:</span></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38">The political economies of extractivism</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38">Ethnographies of extractivism, at all scales.</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38">Extractivism and energy transitions in the Americas</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38">The Temporalities of Extraction (before and after, mechanical and geological)</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38">Extractivism and degrowth/postdevelopment perspectives </div>
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<div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38">The gendered and engendering effects of extractivism and neoextractivism</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38">Canada’s role in extractive and neoextractive industries</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38">Updates on specific regions, countries, and blocks</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38">Notes from the field</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38">Extractivism, Indigenous Politics, and Indigeneity </div>
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<div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38">Comparative analyses (between states, sectors, or regions)</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38">Examinations of extractivism’s literary and cultural production</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Submission of a brief title, abstract (150 words), and biography should be sent to Donald Kingsbury (</span><a href="mailto:donald.kingsbury@utoronto.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)">donald.kingsbury@utoronto.ca</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">)
and Daniel Tubb (</span><a href="mailto:dtubb@unb.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)">dtubb@unb.ca</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">) by October 15, 2020. </span></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">First drafts of papers will be due January 30, 2020, leading to a SSHRC Connection Grant to host a full day workshop at
the CALACS 2021 Conference, either in person or virtually depending on the conditions at the time. Doctoral students, and emerging and established scholars are encouraged to submit. Papers should be 8,000, inclusive, and follow the general guidelines of the
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.</span></div>
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