Hedda Haugen Askland: Living at the Coal Frontier: eritalgia and the loss of an anticipated future
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Dienstag, 12. Juni 2018, 16.15 - 18.00 Uhr |
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Veranstaltungsart | Vorlesung/Vortrag |
Einrichtung | Philosophische Fakultät I |
Veranstalter | Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung und Seminar für Ethnologie der MLU |
Veranstaltungsort | Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Großer Seminarraum |
Straße | Advokatenweg 36 |
PLZ/Ort | 06114 Halle (Saale) |
Ansprechpartner | Bettina Mann |
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Telefon | +49 345-2927501 |
mann@eth.mpg.de |
Beschreibung
Wollar is a small village on the western edge of the Great Dividing Range on the east coast of Australia. Within this small and seemingly insignificant village, a battle, emblematic of what Eriksen (2016) classifies as the central double bind of the Anthropocene, has unfolded over the past ten years. This battle can be described as an ideological contest embedded in dystopic and utopic notions of the future as they relate to questions of energy security and economic progress.
The paper will explore how the hegemonic vision of the future as dependent on coal have manifested at the coal frontier. Drawing on existing scholarship from anthropology and human geography on the politics of time, place and place-based distress, I will examine how this heterogeneous image of the future has led to experiences of disruption, disempowerment and dissonance. (...)
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